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Black Bag 2025
Lot going on here. Throwback thriller, Mid-Budget British Spy Movie made by an American with a hard-on for London™️, dialogue driven plot. People are calling it sexy, but I'm not that easy I reckon it's just got a suave sensibility, which... duh?
What I found really interesting was the tension between modernism and genre demands. Dialogue doesn't work for me. This comes through most in the Fassbender/ Yasmin from Industry (literally the very same dafuq) scenes. Characters are allowed to…
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Adaptation. 2002
Near faultless from a technical pov but the leering wink of writerly showmanship hobbles any kind of pathos that would've made a movie like this enjoyable.
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A Different Man 2024
Like a bribed boxer, A Different Man is yet another A24 movie released in 2024 that promises the (un)familiar hook but hasn't the backing nor the balls to finish you off.
This just doesn't know what it wants to say, or even be, really. The concept alone is the engine powering the first act, and the relationship between Edward and Ingrid is interesting, but as the threads of the sub plot are knitted into the main, the doppelganger arc offers…
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Speak No Evil 2024
SNE really does wonders holding you between grin and grimace for just shy of two hours. A true ensemble cast rallies around McAvoy, who accents the edges of his sermonising, cider-guzzling misogynist, Paddy, sublimely. The plot is paceful but not rushed, the dialogue natural and never overwrought, funny moments are managed with a fine touch, and I liked how little emphasis was put on the American / English cultural disconnect. Oh, and the soundtrack's fantastic, v much hoping for a vinyl release with the hill screaming sequence serving as an interlude. Speak No Evil? I was never gonna.
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