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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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Snow White 2025
Another entry for the Rachel Zegler is a Movie Star Collection. She’s so good in this, clear and crisp and charismatic as all get out. The rest of the film doesn’t live up to her, but there are a couple of moments when she’s belting out a song and it feels like it might.
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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 Fabelmans 2022
I think the marketing for this film has oversold the Movies Are Magic™ angle. A lot of the film is about Sam Fabelman (Mateo Zoryon as a child, Gabriel LaBelle as a teen) making films with his friends, but it all plays into what is ultimately a story about a boy’s relationship with his parents. What parts of himself he recognises in them, or in each other. When they conflict and why. It’s a clever and complex family drama.
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