Better Man is a useful example of what good directing can do. It is, beat-for-beat, almost the exact same movie as Rocketman (2019), right down tothe doting grandmother to whom the protagonist is closer than to his parents, the triumphant act one showstopper edited to look like a single shot, the suicide attempt in the body of water, the surreal musical number while drowning, the scene where the drugged-out singer is thrust onstage to perform, the obligatory stint in rehab…
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Joker: Folie à Deux 2024
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Way back in 2019, just a few years after the world had thrown up its hands and completely given up on making sense, the journeyman director of the Hangover franchise was given altogether too much money and asked to make a style parody of Taxi Driver (1976) with the premise of Cruella (2021). The result was held up by a small, vocal group of people incapable of discerning between depiction and endorsement as the greatest film ever made, and reviled…
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Nosferatu 2024
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Not only was it bloated and boring, not only were all of the performances terrible, not only was it not scary, not only was it so unscary as to prove unintentionally hilarious (see Count Orlok's ridiculous mustache [seriously, what was up with that?] or Lily-Rose Depp sticking her tongue out as if to deliberately parody a depiction of a woman possessed), not only did it feature a lot of gratuitous female nudity in a very misogynistic, male-gazey way, not only…
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Finding Dory 2016
One of the most horrifically depressing films I've ever seen. I would sooner let my hypothetical children watch The House that Jack Built.
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