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Tenet 2020
Extremely loud and incredibly dull in its worst moments. Anchored by engaging emotional beats in its best moments.
John David Washington is perfectly serviceable, and it’s not really his fault that every minute he was on screen I just fervently wished he was his father. Elizabeth Debicki simply blew every other performance out of the water though.
The sound mixing was actually incomprehensible to me. The benefit of watching at home meant that I could turn up my television for the inaudible dialogue and then turn it all the way back down when the score would come and attack me.
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Call Me by Your Name 2017
Revisited in 2024. Main takeaways:
-Timmy deserved to become a star from this performance. A sensitive, specific portrayal of the first blush of love
-Armie Hammer on the other hand seemed to imbue the script with maximum snideness
-Thought it was really funny that during the first sex scene, the camera pans over to a wall calendar that reads “1981” to remind any potentially squeamish audiences of the time and place
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The Half of It 2020
This felt like the first draft of a better movie. It was kind of startling how underdeveloped the characters and relationships felt given how they were at the center of movie’s emotional stakes. I think it’s because a lot of scenes were repetitive and hammered the same point home. (Ex: where’s Paul’s personality outside of tacos? We are told multiple times he loves tacos. Not much else.) The pacing was also off: nothing happened for long stretches of time, and…
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