Not without a sentimental streak in writing and direction, but it’s amazing how much the cast really finds such an honest version of this tale to inhabit. Day-Lewis, Fricker, and O’Connor are all tremendous. God, imagine having an Oscar win as perfectly deserving as DDL, let alone three
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Wolfwalkers 2020
Oh one of the films of the decade, no question. I was (and am) so bowled over by the emotional experience WolfWalkers gives us, but I’m even more impressed this time by how controlled it all feels, how assured the direction is with composition and color. Can’t pretend I’ve fully grasped how to rate direction for animated films, but between this and Flow (and a recent revisit to Paprika) I’m really growing to appreciate that work even more. Absolutely marvelous. And I…
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Emilia Pérez 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
We’re sort of in Bird Box territory here, where a lot of the regressive, inflammatory, genuinely wild ideas are all smothered past any real interest because it’s all so fucking boring and incoherent. Fails utterly as a musical - not one motif to be found across the whole show, no melody or beat to any numbers, and it really sounds like everyone’s been directed towards a kind of “realist” talk-singing that’s just not fun to listen to or dramatically compelling. I…
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The Whale 2022
Just embarrassingly grandiose and martyring for a project about a guy’s slow, selfish, day-by-day march towards his own annihilation. The score and the sound mix are appallingly applied. Samuel D. Hunter and his script (and presumably his original play) deserve The Hague. I whined in pity and shame when Matty Libatique and Mark Friedberg’s names popped up in the credits in the same way I cried when I saw Affonso Gonçalves in the credits for Don’t Worry Darling. You can’t even…
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