I still think that this flails ever so slightly in comparison to Infernal Affairs, possibly because of its length and a certain air of indulgence. It is way funnier than the original, and Scorsese's got a tight handle on its execution. Here we're a bit more frank about the inherent corruption that sees these two moles having such transformatively different life experiences. Costello is possibly the ugliest man ever put to screen.
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High Life 2018
I'm a huge fan of Ad Astra, which largely concerns itself with the legacy of humanity post-Earth, and of the selfish escapism of a socially mobile explorer who's simply so terrified of his own life that he needs to cross the universe to introspect. On the flipside, Denis is more interested in the crucible of non-consent imposed upon those without physical autonomy, and the miracle that is hope persisting. See: a baby being born in a lead lined box, orbiting…
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TÁR 2022
"You're somewhat crooked." At first glance this feels uniquely of our current era, but that's all aesthetic. It's about cancel culture so far as it being a lens that we're forced to look at the world through right now. It doesn't exist, not really, but it's an interpretation of a power phenomenon that has reared its head as long as people have been deserving of that which comes to them ungracefully. Tár sees with a gaze that's mostly discordant with…
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Nope 2022
This is for every horse put down after a careless stunt, the lemmings we've chased off cliffs, the child actors killed or maimed on set. I've seen some twisted shit through my time on the internet. The only sensation comparable to the quickened pulse and real sense of cold dread instilled by snuff media, visually plausible cryptid sightings or carefully arranged horror, is actually seeing it for real. We come back again and again, seeking through video, zooming into images,…
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