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Ticket to Paradise 2022
Clooney and Roberts reunite a fifth time in a film that is sadly lacking in both believable Rom and amusing Com. Mostly laugh-free, I barely registered a mild chuckle and the apparent hatred between the bickering divorcees rings incredibly false. It’s absolutely no surprise as to where the film is going to end, so it all feels lacking as there are no surprises nor real story amidst the sitcom-esque plotting.
It all boils down to just feeling like a glorified…
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Elephant Song 2014
Xavier Dolan excels in this based-on-a-play psychological thriller as a chaotic and manipulative patient who may be behind the apparent disappearance of a resident doctor. Bruce Greenwood’s psychiatrist (and all his home life issues) is brought in to help untangle the web of what may or may not have happened. It’s essentially a two-hander betwixt the two, with support from Catherine Keener and Carrie Ann-Moss in somewhat thankless ex-wife/wife roles respectively.
Ultimately, the ending sort of fell a bit flat;…
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Arrival 2016
Genuinely one of the finest examples of modern science-fiction; Villeneuve expertly blends together themes of loss, time, grief, and communication to create an intelligent film that quietly focuses in on the human aspect. At the centre of all this is Amy Adams, in the magnum opus of her acting career, giving a gently understated and emotive performance as a linguistics professor and mother dealing with the loss of her daughter. Alongside her is Jeremy Renner’s scientist in a more light-hearted…
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