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I'm Still Here 2024
Felt very good to watch a Walter Salles joint in theaters again. Well done helming on not only depicting the lived-in world of Brazil in the '70s at that time, but energizing the feeling of living then as well from the Paiva family.
And how hard it is to navigate any kind of regular familial life with all of this swarming around you. Are all decisions good ones? Not particularly, but doing the best that we think we can for…
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September 5 2024
Fine overall. The acting was solid throughout, especially Leonie Benesch (Babylon Berlin, what's good) but this felt fairly shallow as a narrative considering the history of this event. The name 'Black September' was used once, which was striking and both them and the Jewish athletes weren't really given much real estate either. Which, considering what the objective of the story was, does make sense but still.
This felt like it needed to be longer to give context to the event…
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She Said 2022
Intricate and detailed on a macro and micro level that shows the care that this story was taken across the board, and thankfully so.
Loved the conversation scenes between those involved in all the happenings, and Andre Braugher giving Weinstein the business in all his phone interactions was the chef's kiss. The film does admittedly have a hard road to travel down on doing a bit too much outside of its competence in detailing the power of what journalism can…
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The Menu 2022
Watched this for a second time, to make sure I didn't miss anything twisty or important to the go-home sequence (admittedly fell asleep for like 15 minutes just before "Margot" ordered her cheeseburger), and nope, it just is what it is.
Pretty straightforward and right down the middle with no secrets revealed - tagline lied there - for a movie that seems primed for said secrets to go nuts. But it goes about its business, and ends with smores - literally, figuratively and fatally.
Fun character work all-round where it peeps in here and there though.
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