Reliable Moretti-typical domestic melodrama, Three Floors is nonetheless as subtle as a mallet when offering the events (and their ‘meaning’) that define these family crises and their impacts - still drags you all the way in needing to find out how these people evolve and accommodate to life’s frailties.
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Kneecap 2024
The Commitments via Trainspotting with a touch of any number of Northern Irish independence infused movies, I’m not sure Kneecap foregrounds the original rap music enough, but am utterly sure it wants to be seen as narratively unique, even challenging, making it inconsistent when just leaning into convention would have served it better - still a fun and culturally specific time.
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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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