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42 2013
I kept imagining Spike Lee, who was long linked to a Robinson biopic, continuously banging his head against a wall of Dodgers memorabilia while watching this braindead, whitewashed, paid advertisement for Major League Baseball. I realize that my fellow L.A. Confidential (1997) haters and I are a small minority, but has the moviegoing public at large considered that maybe Brian Helgeland just isn't as good at this as his massive awards cabinet would suggest? Making A Knight's Tale (2001) buys…
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Your Fat Friend 2023
This movie is, among other things, one of the most mature and thoughtful examinations of why marginalized, talented people seek the kind of notoriety available to great essayists in the internet age. The film never asks what prompted Aubrey Gordon to start writing about fatness, but it provides an insightful answer without turning away from the particular costs of internet fame. A really beautiful example of documentary filmmaking.
Gordon, of course, is a treasure. She models clear-eyed radicalism every time…
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The Bonfire of the Vanities 1990
Every lead actor in this movie is atrocious, and every supporting actor is iconic. I desperately wish they’d gotten rid of Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith, and Bruce Willis entirely and just done a movie about F. Murray Abraham’s mayoral campaign. They could’ve made “Ten minutes ago, I was a respected Jewish liberal!” the tagline.
It’s almost unbelievable that the guy who made Body Double (1984) got his hands on some of the most outrageous intellectual property of the era and used…
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