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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 2023
A colossal narrative, tonal and directorial miscalculation, which I suppose starts with the source material. This is a baffling film that suggests Francis Lawrence — who directed three of the four previous HUNGER GAMES films, all of which were good — forgot how to make movies. Or maybe he was just there for the paycheck, since the material has no reason to exist aside from that.
Rachel Zegler, who made an absolutely electrifying screen debut in Steven Spielberg’s WEST SIDE…
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Spectre 2015
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Aside from its strangely uninteresting action setpieces (particularly the two car chases), SPECTRE has three major problems that make it perhaps the most disappointing James Bond movie I've ever seen.
PROBLEM 1: Forced emotional stakes.
We learn that baddie Franz Oberhauser (Christoph Waltz) was like a brother to James Bond after the death of 007's parents ... and that's pretty much all we know. It's an emotional connection that exists solely in exposition.
Also, the script throws in a posthumous…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
A movie about the dangers of religious fanaticism that will undoubtedly inspire fanatics of its own.
Denis Villeneuve whips the audience into frenzy and reverie with Greig Fraser's imagery, Joe Walker's editing and Hans Zimmer's heavy metal in an IMAX experience both awe-inspiring and terrifying — much like Paul Atreides (Timothee Chalamet), a young hero on the cusp of unimaginable villainy as he leads a rebellion on the desert planet of Arrakis.
The viewer's hero arrives in the form of…
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