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No Other Land 2024
Hard to shake the feeling this would have been Best Picture if documentaries were eligible. I thought The Seed Of The Sacred Fig had the most troubled production of the year, but boy was I wrong. Unfortunately we will likely get a sequel from these fantastic filmmakers…
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Tenet 2020
I took the Tube into central London to see this and the experience of trying to communicate with my friends through a mask over the sound of a noisy train is remarkably similar to watching Tenet.
This features some of the most atrocious sound mixing I've ever heard in a film. Almost every other word of dialogue is incomprehensible thanks to the deafening music and Foley layered over it, comically so at points, and when your complex narrative almost entirely…
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The Killer 2023
Fincher's return to familiar slick and sick-minded territory after the stylistic switch-up of Mank. The bare bones approach to presenting to Michael Fassbinder's methodical assassinations is functional, providing lots of beard-stroking one liners through his killer's internal monologue.
I was left wanting a little more meat to chew on - the Killer's plot borders on cliché and the assassination setpieces beyond its brilliant opening sequence leave something to be desired. It reminded me of Panic Room - Fincher's 2002 stripped…
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