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Tenet 2020
Tenet is Nolan at his furthest possible extreme. Seen at their maximum strengths are the very stylistic choices for which Nolan often receives criticism, in an ultimate display of standing one's creative ground. Here, he puts his foot down and gives TWICE the amount of exposition dumps and even MORE inaudible dialogue, confident in his own ability to make an incredible concept succeed. Nolan is using his blank-check filmmaker status to make art that is unapologetically his own, and I think…
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Bullet Train 2022
Of all the movies I have recently seen, Bullet Train is, in my opinion, the best exemplification of the current state of the American cinema industry.
At some point during the 2010s, Hollywood writers began tapping into a very specific set of techniques (which I will refer to as "The Form" for the duration of this review), informed by thousands of researched data points from focus groups, marketing, sociologists, and psychologists. Massive studios (of which there are currently only five)…
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Chaos: The Manson Murders 2025
The book "CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties" by Dan Piepenbring and Tom O'Neill was one of the first texts that truly began to radicalize me. It proved that Vince Bugliosi, the man who prosecuted the Manson trial and wrote the bestselling true crime novel "Helter Skelter", lied and suborned perjury to cover up the government's involvement in the Tate/LaBianca murders. It detailed how the CIA ran explicitly domestic operations targeting countercultural and left-leaning…
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Mickey 17 2025
Going into Mickey 17, I was hoping for a witty, goofy, but ultimately poignant political satire a la The Host, this time in the flavor of sci-fi comedy; what I got was more akin to Don't Look Up, Prometheus, and even, to be a bit harsh, the slightest dash of Megalopolis. Now, I think Bong Joon-ho is generally a much smarter person than the filmmakers responsible for those comparable flicks, and his prowess certainly does show here in many ways.…
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Poor Things 2023
A fascinating odyssey through a world that is both entirely unique to Yorgos Lanthimos' strange mind, and painfully realistic where it matters. The unrelenting absurd tone of grown-up Doctor Seuss heightens the intensity and significance of the film's nuance, much in the same way that the loss of one sense heightens the other four. Poor Things juggles a wide variety of themes and topics centered around female autonomy all while nailing some incredibly hilarious moments, accessorized by phenomenal character-work, stunning production design and camerawork, and a perfectly fitting dissonant score.
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Mulholland Drive 2001
Almost cried several times during this just remembering that Lynch is gone. Silencio.
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