What happened during the reception of this film is probably one of the great mysteries of film history. In fact, Todd Phillips has made the best New Hollywood movie that a major studio has produced in recent years and has even managed to make it better and, above all, more uncompromising than the first part. I would never have guessed this after seeing the Hangover movies and not being able to do much with them. In fact, I thought the…
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Babylon 2022
Chazelle's Babylon is somehow many things. It's a mix of Day of The Locust, the script from Singing in the Rain, Kenneth Anger's book, a little James Ellroy at the end, a swan song and an homage at the end, and all in Baz Luhrman vulgar mode, the kind you rarely see in big prestige Hollywood movies. Even if my heart doesn't immediately scream hurrah and I really had to think long and hard about how I felt about it,…
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The Assassin 2015
The most beautiful lens flares, the most beautiful color palettes, the most fascinating use of aspect ratio, a score that keeps you deep into the mood of these pictures where the sadness is told in old stories from the past which lie like the veil of the curtains, blowin in the wind, on this film and the inner strife of our leading actress concludes to the fact that the film denies genre expectations, instead of a coherent flow, the film interleaves but shows another essential.
Nature and time in itself in a full balanced film.
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The Lineup 1958
"Crime's aggressive and so is the law. Ordinary people of your class don't understand the criminal need for violence."
The essence of so many Siegel films, here said in a dialogue of a brutal real time thriller on location in a tight way. There is not only a second too much. A brilliant little masterpiece !
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