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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★ Watched 21 Feb 2025

  Pretentious, unfinished, Oscar-baiting misery porn.

  With that out of the way, let's dig into the positives. All of the performances are great - especially Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, and of course Adrien Brody. The cinematography by Lol Crawley on 70mm. VistaVision is also mouth-wateringly gorgeous, and the soundtrack fits its atmosphere quite perfectly.

  However: none of these things matter all that much when the story simply isn't there, and the entire experience feels scattershot and unfinished. Apparently, according to some…

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  Megalopolis 2024

  ★★ Watched 21 Nov 2024

  The longest two hours I've experienced in a long time - and somehow, it still felt like an incoherent clip show compilation instead of a linear story. And maaaan, is it every aggressively uninteresting, yet incredibly full of itself regarding what it wants to say. And what does it want to say? Nothing even remotely revelatory or enlightening.

  And dear Christ, is it ever ugly too - so it's not as if you can at least just ignore the clunky…

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  The Trouble with KanYe 2023

  ★★ Watched 02 Jul 2023

  Well, this was a boring, uninformative mess - and I'm talking about the content, not the political stuff.

  As a leftist, anti-racist, feminist kind of person, I fully encourage any talented documentarian to show us an unbiased, measured overview of Ye's descent from well-liked, talented musician into crazed, delusional, fascist lunacy - but this is not it.

  'The Trouble with KanYe' features many of the issues the documentary genre has fallen prey to in the past decade or so -…

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  Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

  ★★★½ Rewatched 02 Oct 2024

  So, I just came back from a screening of Killers of the Flower Moon, which surpassed The Irishman (175,000,000$), Scorsese's previous record for most expensive (somewhat) biographical film ever made, by twenty-five million dollars.

  Mathematically, that comes down to about a million bucks a minute of actual story; this movie has a 206' runtime, including the end credits which take well over a quarter of an hour. Not only that, but I think Thelma Schoonmaker could've easily left at least…

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