I know he's a national treasure, but I wonder if directors are too scared to tell Ian McKellen that's he's being too ripe.
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Captain America: Brave New World 2025
What an alchemist Kevin Feige is, to take $180 million and turn it into purest dog shit. For the price of 18 Brutalists you get weightless CGI, witless dialogue, a plot that goes all over the world but is artlessly shot in murky corridors - oh, and clearly wasn't filmed at the same time. Giancarlo Esposito appears to have been bussed in from another film entirely.
Its greatest crime: probably the worst Harrison Ford performance of all time. I wanted to look away, I felt so embarrassed for the guy struggling to make anything on this thin gruel.
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Nickel Boys 2024
Might take a moment to process this one, but a seriously moving piece of work. Because my brain has been ruined through years of game playing I found it quite hard to get out of FPS mode at times. And maybe there is a slight contrived artificiality to the perspective, so perfectly framing and capturing the moment. But the time hopping and dreamy interruptions mean it isn't necessarily meant to read as literal documentary. And in a year where trauma…
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