A new Christmas classic!
Seriously, a bold, uncomfortable, slice of life dramedy from a point of view we rarely (never?) see.
Laugh out loud funny at times. Consistently engaging throughout. Final scene hall of famer to pull it all together.
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There Will Be Blood 2007
Be it capitalism or organized religion, we’re all fucked. These guys are such pieces of shit.
For all the bravado and bluster, there’s so much detail here. We remember “I’ve abandoned my boy” and “I drink your milkshake,” but PTA and DDL build to those.
Plainview is a toiling miner. Then an oil grunt. Then a charismatic oil man and entrepreneur before morphing into a monstrous thug of a magnate.
All the while, he’s so suspicious of everyone trying to…
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The Electric State 2025
This era of mega-budget movie will be remembered as the time we jumped the shark and started actually making the movies Ben Stiller parodied in the Tropic Thunder trailers.
The Russos are 0-for when it comes to making me care about characters I don’t have a preexisting relationship with. We’ll see how that works out with a less desirable roster in the next couple Avengers films.
I was willing to go with this for a while, and there are a few nuggets here, but everything is done in the most dull way possible.
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Snow White 2025
Rather than “totally serviceable” or “total trainwreck” is shifts between the two, even elevating to “surprisingly good,” especially when Rachel Ziegler is on screen.
“Whistle While You Work” was the highlight for me. I also really enjoyed Snow White’s interaction with the forest bandits, in what felt like a real outdoor location, (gasp!).
There’s definitely a version of the movie where those bandits are a substitute for the Seven Dwarves, because there’s an uncanny valley between the realism with the bandits and the complete digital whimsy of the Dwarves, their work in the mine, and their home.
Also, I bet Gal Gadot thought she nailed this.
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