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Megalopolis 2024
Formally next-level, cribbing Vidor, Eisenstein, Murnau, pasting their montage, dissolve and front-projection onto hyper digital landscapes that feel completely unique. Its total incoherence as an ideological and narrative text make it even more compelling as Document of the Now.
It may not have been Copolla’s intent to portray Cesar Catalina as a future tyrant. But somehow, the line “utopias turn into dystopias” slipped in there anyway. Time, stop.
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Ambulance 2022
It’s easy to sneer at the over-cranked pop instincts of Michael Bay, whose films combine the dynamic camerawork of Spielberg with the hyperactive visual chaos of early MTV, where he cut his teeth on iconic commercial and music video work like Meat Loaf’s “I'd Do Anything for Love.” While his recent work has veered into the baffling overindulgence of Ryan Reynolds in 6 Underground and diminished box-office returns of the Transformers franchise in The Last Knight, the rich palate of…
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Fast X 2023
Our most vibrantly silly and consistently blood-pumping action franchise shorn of energy and verve by joyless studio hack Louis Leterrier. Gray, dull, drab. Whatever you think of F9, you couldn't throw those words at it. The absence of Justin Lin's increasingly confident directorial style is felt for every minute of this bloated (yet incomplete feeling) runtime, especially in Fast X's weak framing and obnoxious overuse of coverage. Leterrier can only seem to muster a pale imitation of the stylish and assured flavor of high-voltage action excellence Lin has spent years refining and perfecting. What a disappointment.
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