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Black Bag 2025
Great propulsive spy thriller. Fassbender and Blanchett are the essential parts of the film’s machinery. Both are on the edge of saying too little or too much. Keeping it so tight effectively amplifies the intensity and tension when elaborate spy games come to a peak.
The close-knit interactions come at the cost of the large bombast some might be accustomed to seeing in the genre. A heads-up, or tactically better, leading with that intel up front might be the play…
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The Possession of Joel Delaney 1972
A Manhattan socialite begins to fear for her troubled younger brother when he starts behaving bizarrely (speaking Spanish) and he seems to have been friends with a backstreet murderer (Puerto Rican).
Honestly, that should be enough, but this movie had a lot of fertile ground and I dunno, just sat around complaining about why no one wants to work anymore? I almost laughed when Joel's first outburst was played very dramatic and straight cause you know some people, 50+ years…
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Past Lives 2023
Absolutely not.
My expectation for Past Lives was to come out having felt something.
The structure, attention to visual detail, the layered immigration aspect, you can't really argue the construction of it, cause it does everything 'right'.However, the lack of characterization, and more importantly CHEMISTRY, between the two leads was so disappointing. It's so hollow, you have to wonder if it's by design. There is a lot of Korean "culture" in the movie, but what does that…
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The Monkey 2025
This unhinged splatter fest filled me with glee. It's a real wet movie. Very much in line with Final Destination, and we even got the trailer for the new one before our screening. The stinger at the end was a nice touch. His next one looks to be more in line with Long Legs and while I'll see it, this is the mode I'd like to see Osgood return to sooner rather than later. Don't care if it's arterial spray–for–pay, as long as it's fun.
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