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Presence 2024
Kinda loved with this formally but I really don’t think the rest of the film played to the gimmick’s strengths at all. Other than Sullivan most of this feels flat and disaffected, which really makes the passé trauma tag-ons and teen screamer twist crap feel extra dumb.
Someone needs to steal the style of this film bar for bar, write a better script (more careful, mysterious, and affecting), give it to a murderer’s row of character actors, and film it in the coolest old waterfront house you can find and I think you’ll have a freaking movie on your hands.
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The Insider 1999
Mann’s the goat. Riveting, emotional, gorgeous, and absolutely vital. It’s good to know that in the intervening years the rot has completely and utterly won.
Double feature with Michael Clayton (2007)
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Michael Clayton 2007
“I am Shiva, the God of Death.”
Textbook. Script is incredible. Supporting cast is totally dialed in. Clooney is otherworldly. A razor-sharp, chilling film. Survival in a world of blood sacrifice to the bottom line.
P.S. Felt a lot of Laird Barron in here.
Double Feature with The Insider (1999)
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 2024
I don’t think this is near as strong as its predecessor, but it’s a great sister film that gives some skin and bones to the pure muscle that is Fury Road.
It’s also just a generally rock-solid sci-fi blockbuster (always good to remember that we can still make these in the wake of Star Wars’ demise). I think it’s really just Miller and Cameron at this point who are pulling off this brand of massive, action-heavy, transportive sci-fi.
I can’t say…
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Columbus 2017
Finally got around to finishing this beauty! Gorgeously shot and stuffed with charmingly stunted and fragmented writerly-ness. The viewer basks in the modernist glory of Columbus, Indiana and feels pressingly the pain of uprooting. Captures so poignantly the wonderful and broken places we inhabit. Life is so beautiful!
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