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Better Man 2024
Better Man benefits tremendously from how it successfully places Robbie Williams as the ultimate underdog, highlighting his lower class origins and fraught relationship with his father as a background for the dismissal he faces for the first half-decade of his professional career. I’m usually not a fan when biopics spend so much time on the dry childhoods of their central characters, but in this case, rooting for Robbie to truly tell everyone to shove it hinges on us knowing where he…
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The Truman Show 1998
I’m convinced that the most genius part of this whole movie was casting Jim Carrey in the lead role. You come in kind of expecting Truman to be a bumbling idiot or something, akin to the other iconic characters Carrey plays. The movie very well could have gone that direction, to make Truman so naive and stunted as a result of his upbringing that he is the “perfect performer” for this TV show. And while that is how the rest…
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Y2K 2024
I get that humor is subjective, but for anyone who says that the jokes in this don’t hit… they’re lying. Not only is it loaded with jokes, but it’s surprisingly gory too, with some of the funniest kills I’ve seen in a movie. Julian Dennison does tae bo on an evil Tamagotchi. Any exposition that seems like it might be taking itself too seriously is immediately undercut with jokes. It’s predictable in the best way, a horror movie that you…
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I Saw the TV Glow 2024
In most horror movies, even when they comment on the ways in which “The real horror is XYZ thing that exists,” there’s still some external threat that’s being scary or unsettling. “Yeah, the Catholic Church is really the evil, but also here’s a freaky ass demon.” But in I Saw the TV Glow, just sitting with the real world is the horror. Sure, The Pink Opaque offers some of the most disturbing imagery, but those are just quick, if effective, glimpses.…
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