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The Bikeriders 2023
Much like EILEEN from last year, this movie is focused around a couple of shall-we-say bold acting performances that in less capable directing hands would land cartoonishly or stand out as laughable. Somehow, Nichols is able to construct a vessel that contains that juice without leaking. In my opinion, Comer and Hardy are terrific.
As for Butler, I've come to appreciate his workmanlike approach. He exists in this movie mostly to be objectified but does it without willfully drawing attention.…
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
Just from an “objective” standpoint: all of the apparent goals of this movie, everything he intends to do, is achieved at an untouchably elite level. The production design, the camera, the score, the acting, the flourishes, and the exploration of the dramatic questions. You would be hard pressed to identify failures, shortcomings, or aspects that don’t “work” in any of those elements. Everything he is trying to do, he is succeeding at. And at a virtuosic level.
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All Quiet on the Western Front 2022
This movie will be played in high school history classes for years to come. And I mean that as a compliment. A clever teacher can get a solid week out of this thing.
Genuinely, no snark, a fourteen year old is going to see this movie and for the first time have the realization that war is not just scary, but it's also unjust. That's worthwhile. Even if the movie is mostly playing covers of war movie hits, they were…
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This Boy's Life 1993
Extremely meh. Deniro cools it with the wackadoo accent in the second half and it gets a little better. Half ass voiceover. The story doesn’t build, it just kind of decides to be done at a certain point.
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