There’s a moment in this film where ScarJo’s director friend is being too exacting and she ruefully says to her (nameless?) sidekick “we should’ve hired Kubrick” (ah yes, famously chill director Stanley Kubrick), and that really tells you exactly how much thought went into the crafting of this.
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The Brutalist 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
A Holocaust movie that doesn’t depict the Holocaust. Laszlo, Erzsébet and Zsófia escape with their lives but each carry a different form of seemingly irreparable damage. And each of them arrives in America hoping to build a home and find safe harbor, only to discover that any safety they’re given rests on the thin ice of other people’s kindness.
It’s natural that Laszlo decides he has come too far and endured too much to ever allow his artistic vision to…
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Saturday Night 2024
You truly have to love SNL to like this and I frankly think SNL having a permanent place in the firmament of American culture is pretty bizarre so I was allergic to this. Cory Michael Smith and Dylan O'Brien are excellent but everyone else has a real “theater kids playing dress up vibe.” Every so often Matthew Rhys shows up to blow everyone off the screen and demonstrate that everyone else is a bit out of their depth.
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Emilia Pérez 2024
This is sincerely some of the very worst shit I have ever seen. People say this winning Best Picture would be like when Crash won Best Picture, but this is really like if Rent had won Best Picture.
This has been criticized as a reductive and regressive representation of the lived experiences it tries to elevate, and that’s certainly true. But that’s just the start of the problem here. This whole thing’s fucked from start to finish. The staging is…
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