Don't know if it's the emotional high coming off of that ending or if it's reflective of the film as a whole, but I feel more than comfortable with my current grade. Maybe that'll change on a subsequent viewing, but even so, I really vibed with this one. Looks fantastic on both a cinematography and production level (especially the emphasis on practical sets and the retro-futuristic aesthetic). Olsen, Vikander and Patel acted their butts off (although I want to give…
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The Electric State 2025
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Typically, when a bad movie makes me angry, it's that kind of obvious fuming anger. But this one? This one made me tired angry. And I think that's worse. It's one thing when a bad movie gets you riled up. It's quite another when a bad movie makes you sag and sigh in your soul.
We can rant about how much this movie costs ($320 million is, I submit, an absurd budget given how little it shows in…
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Civil War 2024
A movie that sells itself as an armor-piercing bullet but turns out to be a damp squib. A movie that claims to have so much to say but says too little. A movie that uses sound and fury to disguise how little substance it actually possesses.
The actors did their best with such thinly sketched characters, the musical score was enjoyable, the licensed music needledrops weren't annoying, the cinematography veered from serviceable to beautiful, and there was exactly ONE sequence…
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Affliction 1997
A genuinely downbeat, depressing watch. Everything - the snow-covered landscapes, the bitter breathy cold, the eerie minimalist score, the way every character looks and sounds exhausted and worn down by winter, Nolte's Wade Whitehouse becoming ever so slightly more unhinged and unglued and sounding more and more like his monster of a father as the film progresses - adds to the atmosphere of dreadful inevitability that builds up to a violent (but not excessively so) crescendo. As someone who came…
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