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Saltburn 2023
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Saltburn does a lot of things quite well— the set design, cinematography choices and 1.33:1 aspect ratio were all well executed and did a lot of heavy lifting in moving through the runtime.
That being said the pacing of the film left a lot on the table— it sometimes felt like it wanted to do too much of some things and too little of others which made the pacing start to drag and some late film exposition felt obvious and…
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Renfield 2023
Idea— as a sort of cultural tax we should force studios to make one movie like this for every superhero movie that gets greenlit.
Seeing this film made me realize how much we’re missing a major sector of moviegoing lately— comedies that have a fun premise and a 7/10 ceiling.
There was some cool set design, Nick Cage’s throne room rigged a maze of blood bags looked great.
I think this movie knew exactly what it was and did the most they could with the idea. Sign me up for more vampire Nick Cage and unremarkable b-plots.
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Beau Is Afraid 2023
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I’ve been told that a good film is a good case study in psychology, I think this movie made me realize that the adverse isn’t necessarily true.
I think Aster hit a really nice stride with the tone of Beau’s nondescript California urban apartment but as Beau’s journey continued my personal connection with each setting quickly waned.
I’m not inherently critical of long movies, but I think there is a roughly two hour film here that could work and still…
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The Northman 2022
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Paying for the sins of your father guarantees the continuation of mistakes that he made. Especially when you willingly pick up the tab.
Eggers lets us have our bloody revenge fun before bringing us back down to earth and reminding us of real world costs of such a violent revenge fantasy.
As we cheered Amleth’s ascent into destroying Fjölnir’s entire life we saw him destroy the tenets of being a human— targeting love and societal structure.
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