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Wicked 2024
Not since Barbie have I felt so utterly out of touch with other humans. Honestly, I love that people love this - all cinema is subjective, after all. It’s not just that the film’s flat lighting, blown-out backgrounds, hideous colour grading and rushed visual effects make this multi-million-dollar production look like a TV movie. Nor that the meandering Mean Girls meets Harry Potter story spends so much time setting up Part 2 and wondering down narrative cul-de-sacs that it doesn’t…
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Small Things Like These 2024
There’s a lot to like here: a meaty moral dilemma, the colour grey…...Cillian Murphy’s enormous grumpy face. Slow but deeply atmospheric and never less than engaging. The so-called inciting incident happens weirdly late in the film though. I also question the decision to frame such a horrific chapter in Irish history—one defined by the suffering of women - through the lens of a grown man. That said, this never feels like a male saviour story, instead it does a great job at conveying the personal stakes at play when pushing back against widely accepted evils.
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Poor Things 2023
She's Alive!! Emma Stone channels a demented version of Claudia Winkleman as a broad-minded heretic – untainted by the shackles of polite society – who constantly asks “but why?”. Why is the sky blue? Why can’t I go outside? Why can’t I massage this woman’s downstairs area because she looks sad? A spiritual successor to Yargos’s other darkly comic satires about social conformity, but abandons the bone-dry archness of The Lobster in favour of a more obvious comedic tone…..but thankfully…
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The Holdovers 2023
Tolerance and open-mindedness are values to be cherished and I pride myself on welcoming a diverse range of views no matter how different, especially with an artform as subjective as film. However……on this occasion, I’d be deeply suspicious of anyone over the age of 18 who actively dislikes The Holdovers. I’d say with some confidence these people are probably psychopaths to be avoided. Stands side-by-side with the best of Ashby. The cinematic equal to chowing down on a Lancashire hotpot in a merino jumper next to a log burner.
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