Brilliant, brutal examination of what makes America tick. The petty urge to cut down that powers us culturally, and the obnoxious urge to achieve, which fuels everything else. My favorite Reese Witherspoon performance by a mile. Good work, Alexander Payne.
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Fracture 2007
Ryan Gosling is Canadian and has a bad Southern accent in this for basically no reason. Rosamund Pike is British but is doing a Californian accent. Anthony Hopkins is doing his usual thing. Fiona Shaw is Irish and is playing an LA judge but using her regular Irish accent. What is going on here?
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Before Sunset 2004
Marginally better than the first movie, though at the same time I miss the first one's more playful interaction with the surrounding environment. The characters are a little more interesting this time around, but at the end of the day I still loathe Delpy's character and performance. She delivers clunker after clunker, like "An imperialist country can use that kind of thinking to justify their economic greed." Ugh, shut up!
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I'm Your Man 2021
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Dunno what could have made this work for me. I might just be uninterested in the AI love story genre since I didn't care much for Her, either.
One thought I had while watching this is that it felt like a love story I could write, and I don't really know anything about love. In other words it feels like maybe a little too "above the shoulders". I think the writers anticipate this complaint in the scene where Tom shows…
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