I'm sorry Maestro and Bradley Cooper, perhaps I treated you too harshly last year.
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The Apprentice 2024
A decent movie about the making of a monster that seemed to have an under-cooked, maybe even an almost non-existent second act. The film's saving grace was its acting. Whether it was Sebastian Stan's gradual morphing into the Donald Trump that we know today, Jeremy Strong's devil-in-human-skin Roy Cohn, or Maria Bakalova's tender portrayal of Ivana Trump, the acting did a lot towards keeping the viewer distracted from the blank spaces of the plot and character progression.
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The Lives of Others 2006
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The mention and depiction of communist states controlling each and every move of their citizens is not uncommon in popular media. However, most of such depictions seem more focused on the rotten and heartless nature of the governments and less focused on the psychological toll such measures take on the free-thinking population. In The Lives of Others, you see the opposite taking place, and through shifting perspectives, the viewer gets a profound study of 2 characters whose approaches to their…
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Quo Vadis, Aida? 2020
Once in a while, you encounter a visual depiction of the effects of war which seems so real that it leaves a stronger imprint than any written account ever could. Quo Vadis, Aida? is the most recent entry in the list of war movies which are accurate as well as emotionally impactful for the viewer, and serves to educate the viewer about how the Srebrenica massacre unfolded.
The movie covers one of the most brutal events of the largely forgotten…
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