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The Brutalist 2024
I really enjoyed watching this movie.
The movie portrays the immigrant experience with real, well thought out depth. Sure, it doesn’t focus on the more bureaucratic aspects of what goes into settling into a new country. But it shows you the emotional response that the characters have to entering a new space and having to learn to call it their new home. Whilst still yearning for their homeland or a version of it that’s no longer around. The movie doesn’t…
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Captain America: Brave New World 2025
I’ve seen a lot of negative reviews for the film as of late. I’ve seen it on opening day, it was quite nice to see the cinema packed. It makes a movie going experience all the more enjoyable.
The movie isn’t bad. I have a lot of gripes with it. It’s not the worst Marvel movie ever but it’s definitely not good when compared to what Marvel made at its peak. It’s the sort of movie that would’ve been praised…
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Civil War 2024
Visually and technically this film is a fine accomplishment. There’s a sense of heightened realism to all of the action set pieces and they feel dangerous. The gunshots and bomb blasts audibly feel very realistic. It’s what I can confidentially say real gunshots sound like, don’t know about bombs though. But the visuals do sell the scale of the internal invasion taking place in this version of fictionalised America.
Now that I’ve appreciated its technical prowess, I have to say…
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Conclave 2024
Let me preface by saying I liked this movie in various places. But as a whole I don’t like it. Upon rewatch it doesn’t hold up that well.
Ralph Fiennes has given a good performance as usual, I love to watch actors enjoy their work and work in coherence with their scene partners to deliver well acted scenes. Stanley Tucci shines in the scenes he shares with Fiennes. As two friends must take a side in order to prevent something…
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