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Emilia Pérez 2024
We come to this place for audacity, but Emilia Pérez follows the prompt too close to the sun. Zoe Saldaña and Karla Sofía Gascón deliver strong performances and the film musters some interesting ideas, but it ultimately collapses from its own operatic navel-gazing. I did enjoy the choreography and wanted more sequences like Zoe's gala dance or the final parade.
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Conclave 2024
Edward Berger heads out to the barn and milks one of the most powerful visual motifs in all of cinema: smoking. Oh, how the milk doth nourish me! I said amen whenever someone took a drag or ripped a cloud from their little vape. I also love how much Vatican intrigues and power politics transpire inside a cafeteria. And does the Pope always keep that ring-splitter on his desk or does it only come out when he starts slipping from the saddle? I'm grateful to Berger and screenwriter Peter Straughan for inspiring me to ask these questions. The entire ensemble cast is manna from heaven.
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The Last Duel 2021
History can't exist without an author, so it's apropos of The Last Duel to explore how the truth lives three lives across three perspectives. Scott masterfully employs the three-part narrative to demonstrate how memory bends truth to reveal ideal visions of the beholder based on a strong script from Affleck, Damon, and Holofcener.
The Last Duel's greatest quality is its acting and I applaud whoever vetoed French accents for the characters. Comer, the heart of the film, is clearly the…
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Jurassic Park 1993
I never experienced Jurassic Park as a child, yet I can't help but feel childlike watching dinosaurs on a big screen. At one point, the founder of the titular park describes his desire to create an illusion without strings; Steven Spielberg actually achieves this feat through superlative direction and revolutionary use of CGI, which largely holds up even today.
Jurassic Park struck me as an "un-horror" movie, and I was surprised by how often it pursued terror over sheer adrenaline.…
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