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The Last Showgirl 2024
One of the most beautifully shot movies I’ve seen this year, the director and DP know exactly when to leave you claustrophobically close and when to pull out for the false grandeur of Las Vegas to overwhelm. The whole film feels like an optical illusion, but there is a beating heart at the center of all this razzle dazzle. Pam Anderson gives a career best performance in my opinion, equally boisterous and neurotic at turns, and the supporting cast (especially…
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Double Indemnity 1944
In high school, my improv comedy teacher made my troupe watch 5 noir films in order to better parody genre flicks. I was the only person in the group who completed the assignment. Double Indemnity was the first one I watched and I would watch it again in college for my Scandinavian crime fiction class (for context on crime fiction outside of Scandinavia). The film is deliciously paced with just enough empathy developed for the characters that watching them unravel is exquisite and excruciating. Overall this is a movie much like The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: a classic, for good reason.
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The Matrix 1999
Near perfect movie and an old fave of mine that I’ve probably seen over a dozen times, but there’s always something new to notice
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It Ends with Us 2024
Walked out twenty minutes in. Steaming dogshit that glorifies abuse whether it knows it or not
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