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Only the River Flows 2023
would’ve liked either more or less of the Lynchian touches — the plot drifts closer and farther in waves, best to enjoy as an atmospheric vibe
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The Brutalist 2024
forever oscillating between incoherence and overwritten explication — all the VistaVision film in the world can’t make these two-dimensional (and I’m being charitable there) characters come to life. this is “A Little Life” printed on 70mm, with the cultural cheat code of the trauma plot taken to its IMAX extreme; the script points at our deepest historical and archetypal catastrophes (the Holocaust, r*pe, child abuse) in an attempt to borrow their psychic weight, rather than do the work of integrating…
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