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Mickey 17 2025
I just love the worlds that Bong Joon-ho creates. Funny, bizarre and brilliantly biting. Whereas it’s a bit more on the nose than Parasite, Mickey 17 was still marvelously entertaining and engaging. A provocative meditation on identity, class hierarchy and the value of humanity.
Robert Pattinson was fantastic as the titular character, finding nuance in the different versions of “Mickey”. Naomi Ackie as Nasha was hilarious and fierce, providing a moral compass to the film. Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette…
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Wicked 2024
Hype kills. I made the mistake of not seeing Wicked opening weekend and the intensity of the hyperbole set my expectations way too high by the time I got to the theater. Let me concede that I am not the target audience for this show, though I am a theatre professional who has both directed and performed in many musicals.
I’ll begin by giving praise to the two lead performers. Grande and Erivo were superb! Their interactions are dynamic and…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
What an extraordinary movie experience. Daaaamn. Just a dazzling visual and auditory accomplishment.
As a fan of the books, I think Denis Villeneuve and team brilliantly boiled down the major themes and kept the action moving forward while covering a lot of heavy territory.
Some may quibble about the changes from book to film but I didn’t have a problem with any of them. The changes focused the energy on the themes of leadership, fanaticism, political corruption and faux spiritualism.
The performances were fantastic. Production design was extraordinary. Costumes were stunning.
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Saturday Night 2024
A fantastic ensemble and brilliantly paced direction makes this one of my top films of the year. Jason Reitman finds an Altman-esque tone that flows and builds with tension. The focus is on SNL creator, Lorne Michaels (wonderfully portrayed by Gabriel LaBelle) and everything orbits around him and his attempt to create something new in a corporate world that wants him and the show to fail. The performances are grounded without ever becoming impersonations. The themes focus on creativity, belief in one-self and defying norms.
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