Did I enjoy it? Did I learn anything? Does it explain anything?
I don't know.
I always say we don't need backstories for villains in movies, but maybe we do need them for real-life villains. If anything, trying to understand them just makes them more terrifying.
About the film though, it hinges on the performances of Stan and Strong, who are both truly terrific. Stan does a great job of delivering a performance that doesn't descend into parody or caricature,…
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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood 2019
First viewing since seeing it at the cinema and I’m still a bit so-so on it. Scene by scene, I think it’s marvellous - but the sum of its parts are greater than the whole.
It’s remarkable now to see so many of today’s stars in small roles, like Margaret Qualley, Mikey Madison and Sydney Sweeney - all magnetic in their brief screen time. And Brad Pitt Is just endlessly watchable.
But as thrilling and spectacular as this all is,…
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Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids 2004
The greatest strength of this film is that the kids are incredible characters. The fact of their circumstance only makes them even more fascinating.
Having said that, I expected this doco to go deeper and it got a bit too "white saviour" for my liking towards the end.
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Girl, Interrupted 1999
Highly disappointing and wholly unconvincing.
As a sort of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next" meets "The Virgin Suicides", this film compares unfavourably to both.
The acting, for starters, is too self-conscious, like actors playing actors playing mental patients, and the soundtrack seriously grates with such overstated choices as "Night Time is the Right Time" when the girls escape the ward at night and "Time Has Come Today" when the alarm rings.
Mangold attempts some ambitious techniques early on to…
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