When are you going to poly me? Sleek, sexy, tightly paced and impeccably shot with crackling dialogue and a complex-but-not-overly-so plot, all adding up to a delicious concoction complete with a dinner party.
3 months in and Soderberg has directed easily the best two films of the year.
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Sicario 2015
Top-tier action crime thriller with an A-list cast. The moral dilemma of the drug war is well illustrated, but the movie doesn't really take sides. By-the-book investigations and prosecutions that change nothing? Off-book black-ops that move the needle but are clearly illegal? This is the land of wolves.
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Roma 2018
Breathlessly over-hyped, this is one of the worst films I've ever sat through. If I hadn't watched this in my living room, I'd have gotten up and walked out. Listless and unengaging, this is the sort of movie that earns critics the label, "pretentious" for their fawning. No question, this is beautifully shot, and the performances are fine, but this is a case where the sum of the parts is far less than then whole. The drama of an unwanted…
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The Brutalist 2024
That a 3 1/2 hour movie about an architect and his patron's battle of wills over the design of a community center is this compelling is incredible. Any Oscar acting discussion that excludes Brody and Pierce is suspect.
Tense and engaging from the moment the opening credits begin, this is classic Oscar bait that lives up to the challenge. The first half is propelled by the vague yet pervasive sense of dread hanging over the proceedings, but it felt a…
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