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Eephus 2024
A slow burn of a movie in the very best sense. The action takes place over the course of a day as two teams of suburban dads play their last baseball game at a field that’s about to be torn down. As the daylight fades and the umpires leave, the two teams find ways to play on, and the result is a commentary on male cameraderie, on the roles of playfulness and competition in American life, and on ingenuity in…
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A Complete Unknown 2024
Dynamite film with a terrific lead performance and plenty of well handled period detail. Ergo: just so much fun to watch!
Cornucopia of details aside, I think what really made the movie sing for me was its structure and narrative build. Chalamet is meticulous in presenting many versions of a developing Bob Dylan: we meet him as a kid and watch his contradictory and uneven coming of age. A concurrent narrative traces the late days of the American folk music…Translated from by
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Barbie 2023
What a weird whiplash of a pop-culture thingum. There are passages that are thoughtful, for example a riff on a tween who hates Barbie and her mother who doesn’t; a nice outsider dialectic when Barbie enters the Real World. At such points I’d become engaged and want those issues explored. But almost immediately would follow something half-baked or just inept: a subplot about Mattel executives that goes nowhere; a chase scene that was like an out-take from a very cheap…
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Past Lives 2023
There’s a lot to like about this movie: the scenery, the pacing and camerawork, the nicely lapidary structure.
For me, though, the central performance was unrewarding. Nora was a pretty blank slate, and it was hard to see her as truly creative and hard to see why the two guys were interested in her. I know others saw a performance of subtlety and depth, so I’m curious to know what they got that I missed.
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