I admire what it’s going for and in the right mood I could see getting on its wavelength. But I spent way too much of this feeling like I was watching an indie video game or, worse, a Windows 95 screensaver.
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Taxi Driver 1976
I’ve seen this so many times that I wasn’t prepared for how much the comedy - especially as it relates to the white wannabe political elites - pops. Keitel also has some brilliant non-sequiturs. I might argue the levity is what keeps this from being just a straightforward descent into mental madness. For my money, this is funnier even than the cinephile revisionist darling, The King of Comedy.
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The Killer 2023
Fincher’s 8 1/2, his All That Jazz. A compliment and also an indictment of a filmmaker who only rarely adds up to the sum of his parts. It has a knowing, self aware winking quality, like Fincher’s making a fool of himself and his preoccupation with characters who wish they weren’t robots, or wish they were robots, as they reckon with their inconvenient humanity. On the other hand, it possesses the frustrating, mean, cold, and immoral streak that isn’t playful…
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The Fabelmans 2022
The Fabelmans feels good. The magic of movies never doesn’t feel good. But… Increasingly Spielberg is morphing into what he was accused of being (but wasn’t) in the early 2000s, when snobby film school types charged him as everything saccharin about Hollywood movies. It’s not that the themes of The Fabelmans are uninteresting. A profound artist born out of the conflict between a literal-minded father and an artistically-stifled mother are the stuff The Movies! are made of. But where the…
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