completely incurious about Palestine and Palestinians, of course, but otherwise smartly written and nicely tense!
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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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