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The Devil's Advocate 1997
Satan; maybe the last humanist.
An oddly seductive legal thriller with lofty ambitions. Two idiosyncratic leads in Reeves and Pacino blowing/tumbling their way through first-rate pomp to one hell of a crescendo. It's not all carried through - the domestic side of things spins it's wheels when it runs out of juice despite a strong start that feeds well into the overarching themes. It's strange and it's vain and it's pretty damn entertaining for the most part. I'm for it.
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All of Us Strangers 2023
A great encapsulation of how paradoxical grief can be. Quietly devastating, sentimental, and really gorgeous. Tightly focused, but uses the lingering moments to speak. The indefiniteness of everything, how it all blends into one unreality where people you know or knew pass around like ghosts, is really affecting.
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Possession 1981
My girlfriend and I had very different reactions to Possession as we watched it together for the first time. I was very much caught up in the frenzy, disconcerted by the dour and barren spaces; bare offices, empty streets, shabby apartments. Ever more unsettling are their sparse inhabitants, all eccentric, erratic and mercurial, spliced together with visceral cinematography and fluctuatingly oppressive sound design (in either its silence or its shrillness). For as much as I was engrossed in Possession's madness,…
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