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Judgment at Nuremberg 1961
The wonderful thing about early 60s English-language cinema is that the same aesthetic, even film stock, used to shoot bowdlerised melodramas instead showcased Montgomery Cliff, midway through his self-medicated descent into oblivion, playing a (potentially) developmentally disabled man talk about being forcibly sterilized. And while The Stranger was not the first Hollywood film to feature George Stevens' 'Nazi Concentration Camps' footage, you can just hear the breath leave everyone's bodies in that auditorium from across half a century the moment…
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Click 2006
The final 30 minutes of this film have quite the reputation for tear jerkery. It is a reputation well earned. Sandler and Coraci do not put a foot wrong with the pathos, striding toward the film's final message of life affirmation and familia ante omnia. Even the horrifically dated humour and aesthetic are wrangled effectively in this third act. The rest of the film is just jerkery, and of the especially slobbish variety Sandler prides himself. Part of the richness…
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Tenet 2020
It has finally happened. Christopher Nolan has pushed me, a longtime admirer and irate apologist, over the edge. This madman cannot expect me to develop superhuman hearing just to discern his incredibly complicated, armchair temporal physics theory exposition over Ludwig Göransson's droning base. That's 80% of the film!
Top marks for spectacle, medium marks for suaveness, low marks for pacing. Nolan's films usually go at a breakneck pace, but with a new editor working on this one I think Chris' worst impulses were indulged a bit too much.
And who keeps letting Kenneth Branagh do accents?!
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Megalopolis 2024
The first film from Francis Ford Coppola in 13 years, Megalopolis is a sword and sandles Roman epic silent movie, set in an art deco future and with sound. It contains some of the most breathtaking visuals I've seen in a modern movie, intermingled with some absolute cringe. On the IMAX screen the experience of this movie will be unsurpassed for a very long time. It is deeply flawed, certainly. Every moment you are thinking 'The man who did this…
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