My preferred version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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Paris, Texas 1984
Second viewing, first in theaters, last seen 9 years ago when I responded to it with a bunch of exceedingly polite compliments and nitpicks that now read to me as kind of clueless. Seemed clear this time that the key scene is one I'd had no memory of, namely the talk about how the whole universe blew up out of a tiny speck, "flying every place", with water and lava on Earth then hitting each other to create land -…
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Dune 2021
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Denis Villeneuve appears to know exactly one way to make movies, which is to make everything seem Important by slightly drawing out and imposing a variably portentous and/or foreboding tone on every scene - a limited, one-note approach that nevertheless does involve a certain basic respect for filmmaking craft, which in itself has been enough to make Villeneuve a rarity in the modern Hollywood landscape and lend his increasingly big-budget productions a prestige and rarefied air. (His real calling, I…
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Suicide Squad 2016
Maybe the closest any movie's ever gotten to being a literal garbage fire.
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