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Bringing Out the Dead 1999
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The scene where Cy tells Frank he saved his life yet Frank still can’t quite accept it is one of the most moving yet agonizing moments of Scorsese’s career
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The Guard 2011
What’s weird about John Michael McDonagh in cop mode is his gleeful misanthropy, as seen in Gerry Boyle in “The Guard” and Bob and Terry in “War on Everyone”. It’s all justified through some shaky mix of nihilism and moral relativism that neither film is able to coalesce into a clear position, but at least “The Guard” is very funny and moves at a clip.
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A Confucian Confusion 1994
If you thought Edward Yang's other movies had dialogue that was too on-the-nose, wait until you get a load of this. "A Confucian Confusion" is Yang's most dialogue-driven film, and the dialogue is notoriously arch even by Yang's standards. It's almost as if Charlie Kaufman wrote it if a) he spoke Mandarin and b) he was interested in subjects other than male solipsism. The result is amazing, but also a little vexing. After all, Mandarin does not lend itself well…
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The Second 2024
Video essay icons Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos make a short, and it is every bit as studiously executed as expected. It is mainly the story though that feels too indebted to the Rian Johnson school in that too many deliberately unexplained references are peppered in to create a sense of worldbuiding, to the point wherein we wonder more about those plot points than the father-son relationship at the center of it. This is good calling-card stuff, but now I…
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