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The Killers 1964
I thought this was a fun and exciting take on the crime thriller genre. Probably the most impressive part of the film, to me, was how ahead of its time the tone is. This is a deeply cruel, cynical film about betrayal and violence employed for personal gain and the deadly consequences that ensue. It’s pretty unflinchingly brutal in its presentation of violence, including that against women. The two hitmen are especially cutthroat, killing or threatening to kill people in…
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Collateral 2004
I must’ve been in a bad mood the first time I watched this, because I thoroughly enjoyed Collateral on this second viewing. The things that I liked last time stood out to me even more this time, namely Tom Cruise going God-mode and the gorgeous, gorgeous cinematography that captures the brightness and vastness of L.A. so brilliantly. Digital shooting never looked so good. The sequence at the club hit even harder, from the frenetic editing to the intense lighting to…
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The Lives of Others 2006
I can only imagine the intense pleasure liberals (and of course conservatives as well, but that goes without saying) got out of rubbing one out to Christa getting hit by that truck or the book dedication to HGW XX/7.
Fuck this movie. This is just neoliberal idealistic and moralistic slop packaged as some meaningful statement about “totalitarianism.” It’s one thing to make a movie critiquing East Germany and the Stasi (because yeah, the GDR wasn’t a cloud cuckoo land, it…
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Eyes Wide Shut 1999
Eyes Wide Shut is one of those movies that is so enormous in scope that it’s hard to know what to say about it in a review. Every single detail is bursting with meaning and significance. I’m going to isolate a handful of the film’s features that particularly stand out to me.
First, Kubrick’s use of color in Eyes Wide Shut is breathtaking. The reds, the blues, the purples, the greens, all come together in a distinct and gorgeous prism…
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