megalopolis >>>>
different snarky letterboxd comment: Guy Pearce says "significant other" and the Ellis Island guy uses "myself" as an override reflexive smh at anachronistic usage killing the period piece mood
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A long sincere movie deserves a longer more sincere review.
In a landscape of new movies defined by irony-poisoned comedy and the tamest white elephant art, I admire that The Brutalist is "trying things," but its gestures toward experimentation do more to draw attention to how ineffectual it ultimately…
