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Pretty Woman 1990
For most of my early life this was the touchstone of Richard Gere’s career, so I had the idea recently to revisit this knowing what I know now of his earlier collaborations with Malick, Schrader, Brooks etc. It’s clear in that context that Marshall was looking for someone with a little more edge when they cast Gere; someone that we as the audience believe would pick up a sex worker off of Hollywood Blvd and would make his living gutting…
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Strange Darling 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Not really sure how to prevent this but this is one of those movies where so many people told me to avoid spoilers that it basically ruined the twist for me. There’s only two ways this movie can go, and so many people telling me “ooooo it’s a big twist!” made it pretty clear what was going to happen.
Willa and Kyle are great though. I feel like this and In A Violent Nature were often in the same conversation in 2024 and I preferred the other.
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 2024
It would have been easy for George Miller to just serve us up more Fury Road, and people would have welcomed it, but I respect his obvious choice to do things differently here. While Fury Road was a barebones shot of adrenaline, Furiosa is the most epic of Miller’s Mad Max movies. Miller is finally able to really explore the world that he’s only been able to serve us glances us before, and every piece of it works. I personally…
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Oppenheimer 2023
There's an age-old trope in biopic filmmaking that absolutely every scene must get right to the point. You're telling the story of person's entire life; you don't have time to let a scene breathe like any other film might. Each scene has an immediate purpose within the story of a the subject's life, and that purpose must be communicated efficiently to move on to the next scene. This, of course, does not feel organic within traditional filmmaking or storytelling, and…
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