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Mickey 17 2025
It's nice … but there is nothing surprising about “Mickey 17.” In Joon-ho’s earlier films, characters were mobile allegories. He used them like pieces on a chess board moving toward an eventual checkmate, which often required interesting and creative storytelling strategies. But when this end goal, this checkmate, is removed, we are left only with the pieces to entertain us. We know already how these pieces move — the queen like a queen, the rook like a rook — the…
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The Searchers 1956
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This is the most difficult film I have ever watched. I feel a pit in my stomach and nothing I type feels adequate. The unabashed brutality of this film in its depictions of actual human beings is impossible to rationalize. So impossible it feels almost exaggerated, like a caricature. I feel it must have been Ford's intention to make the viewer feel this way. His inclusion of a half-Native American character as the only "morally correct" character in the film…
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A Complete Unknown 2024
What's the point of a movie like this? If I wanted to know about Dylan's life I would watch a documentary (and Scorsese has already created a fine one) or read a book (of which there are many). No, biographical pictures exist to do something which pure non-fiction cannot: tell a story. And a story involves always a kind of interpretation, a spin that is produced by the person who tells it. An interpretation requires making an opinion, taking a…
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