Josh Hartnett is having fun, and cleverly understands where this movie sits in the world of (garbage) cinema, but wow, is the rest of it a slog, an exercise in wrong-headed nepotism (Shaleka Shyamalan sells the pop-star stuff, but is a horrible actress) wrapped around a story idea with waaay too many unsuccessful stabs at sustaining our interest.
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The Electric State 2025
For me, this is final confirmation that the Russo brothers are horribly ordinary directors given bizarrely big checks - Spielbergian aspirations meet dumb, derivative, uninvolving storytelling (despite really solid source fundamentals) - what a waste of some very obvious riches on display.
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Happy Feet Two 2011
I don't see many people retrospectively acknowledging the auteurist qualities of Happy Feet 2, which is crazy, being how there’s so much love for Mad Max : Fury Road. And I’m sure it’ll remain a critical blind spot, which is crazier, because HF2 is every bit the George Miller creation as his 2015 apocalyptic action darling. Only a whisker shy of Miller’s genre blitzing masterpiece, Babe : Pig In the City, technically, emotionally and energetically, HF2 equals anything from Pixar…
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Eyes Wide Shut 1999
"And no dream is ever just a dream."
Relationship fidelity has endless topicality, philosophic potential and moral dimension, and Eyes Wide Shut might be mainstream cinema's most sophisticated meditation on the subject. Love (the wise option) or loathe him, the genre standard was set by Adrian Lyne with Fatal Attraction (1987), Indecent Proposal (1993), and Unfaithful (2002). Mike Figgis' forgotten One Night Stand (1997) was a tasty addition, Sam Mendes set the Oscars abuzz with American Beauty (1999), and Mike…
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