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The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999
Sometimes (and these are the best times) I revert to an absolute cinema pleb (I’m sorry I said that). I see a perfect Italian suntan on the screen and I am content to watch. I see that the wearer of perfect tan is Jude Law as a bratty and magnetic overgrown schoolboy and I need not much more. But The Talented Mr. Ripley was generous ...
Matt Damon was perfect as Jack Ripley. When sociopaths and their ilk are portrayed…
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Joker 2019
Part of the reason the super-clickable reviews of Joker are so scathing is because they’re written by … Dude Members of the New York media elite. As we wrap up another decade of being online, these men have been well-trained by Twitter to know at least one thing about themselves: “your suffering is the kind people hate the most. It’s better if you just shut up about it, or if you must talk about it, at least make it funny.”…
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Midsommar 2019
Midsommar is yet another round in the kind of gorgeous psychological horror that we get our nut on in the late 2010s. A young woman is disturbed, quietly. Everything around her becomes disturbing too, at first quietly and a little slowly. Then the pace at which we are exposed to the Weird and the Eerie picks up, until it feels shocking. Things keep getting faster and looser, just like the May Queen dance in Midsommar, until we all fall down,…
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