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Dinner in America 2020
People cite the abrasive edginess of the first section of this movie as an obstacle but it's absolutely key both in the film's satirical portrait of an America where everyone is essentially a powerless loser middle manager putting up fronts and as a story of two people in (both literal and metaphorical) hiding who slowly bare their hearts. An incredible tonal gambit that pays off, it's kind of stunning how much of a shift it takes in the last 45…
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Black Bag 2025
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
"If Severus gets into the wrong hands it'll mean the end of everything."
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Mickey 17 2025
Good ideas and a shot at biting satire utterly drowned out by plodding pacing, annoyingly quirky writing, Saturday morning cartoon level didacticism and SNL-esque resistance lib mugging at the camera. Mark Ruffalo the most bafflingly awful performance I've seen in a major movie for years.
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The Zone of Interest 2023
Post-cinema. A sobering invective about how utterly incapable this medium is of truly confronting evil and honoring the victims of atrocities. We can soak up the ambient dread for two hours but it's still 1s and 0s processed into a digital image and projected on a screen.
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