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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 2024
It’s so rare for an action film to really feel epic. Furiosa does. It spans a long time, and it takes a long time to watch. It presents a rich world, and each section delivers its own flourishes and details, and then delivers a brilliant action set piece, ripe with character.
I have always liked Chris Hemsworth. This may be his best work to date. I would like to see more filmmakers challenging him, pushing him to bring this level…
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Nope 2022
If you gaze into the Hollywood machine, the Hollywood machine gazes also into you.
In both of Jordan Peele's first two films, Get Out and Us, the protagonists' childhood traumas are deeply entangled with memories of watching television. Nope is (partly literally, partly subtextually) about the production of those images, and of the urge to consume violence.
Who makes images for profit? Whose image is used? Who is looking? When does consent cross to complicity to exploitation? The character who…
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Trenque Lauquen 2022
This rocks. A resolutely arthouse, languid, unhurried, literary mystery played out so slowly and at such length that it becomes unmistakably cinematic. Movies are as much about time as they are about visuals, and you simply couldn't tell this story in this way in any other medium.
Trenque Lauque is four and a half hours long, and I would have watched for another two hours, happily. It's rich, dense, and the information is parcelled out so cleverly that there are moments when I felt completely electrified by it. Lovely, natural performances, great locations, and really interesting music. Loved it.
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Mickey 17 2025
All visions of the future are visions of the present, and all Bong Joon ho films are about the mascerating grind of capitalism. Mickey 17 is about the disposability of the servant classes, and probably aligns most closesly in Bong's work with Snowpiercer and The Host, although tonally it may more closely resemble Okja. It finds humour in the absurdity of Mickey's cycle of death and reprint, but I think the film's strongest moments are in the pathos of Mickey's…
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The Matrix 1999
Where to begin?
The Matrix is a masterpiece.
The casting? Keanu, beautiful, lithe, the only action star believable as both a sunlight-deprived nerd and a master of kung fu. Fishburne, exuding paternal wisdom, gentle assurance. Moss, radiant and androgynous and pin-sharp.
The script? Clever and funny and clear so that every head-spinning idea makes perfect sense, a world that fits together and runs like clockwork, a structure the builds perfectly and delivers more than a handful of Great Movie Moments.
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The Beast 2023
In Kate Mascarenhas’s novel The Thief on the Winged Horse, a family of doll-makers inscribe their products with mysterious sigils. These symbols bestow magical qualities on the dolls—touching them fills one with a particular emotion: nostalgia, melancholy, joy, love. Far from being empty vessels waiting to be imbued with meaning by their owners, the dolls instead impose an emotional experience over the people playing with them.
There’s a comparable idea in La Bête/The Beast. The story is split between three…
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