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Beauty and the Beast 2017
32/100
However thin the excuses have been for Disney’s recent live action remakes beyond just making money, up until this point the creative teams behind each have looked as though they wanted to bring something different to their adaptations. Cinderella (2015) reframed the story to be more from the point of view of its main character, Jungle Book (2016) adapted out some of the more uncomfortable elements of the source material whilst experimenting and attempting to perfect film technology, and…
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Hell or High Water 2016
73/100
A short review, because I watched this a couple of weeks ago, so is not as fresh within my memory.
Went into this one with next to no expectations, and came out pleasantly surprised indeed. With Hell or High Water Taylor Sheridan proved that has script for Sicario was no fluke, making great use of updated western tropes to tell the story of two brothers robbing banks, the increasingly morally complex reasons revealed over time.
It’s very much the…
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Days of Heaven 1978
95/100
It's cliche at this point to open a review of Days of Heaven with a statement of just how beautiful the movie is, but as it's also so important to stress I will follow suit. When the first shot of the train appears on screen, shadowed against the bright morning sky after previously only seeing industrial ugliness, I always gasp. It's languish has precedence in the work of Andrei Tarkovsky, but here its is pushed through the lens of…
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2015
I tried to avoid spoilers, but be warned
"This should help to make things right"
That is the first line of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and it pretty much sets the tone and intent of the film. The Star Wars prequels are generally reviled movies, and the new team led by JJ Abrams knew they have to win back a lot of those people to the fold. But it also knows it has to set up a whole universe…
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