Funny! Way raunchier than I expected - were the Monty Python guys always this unironically horny? - yet at the same time I can't help but feel it leaves something on the table. The central conceit here is that Jamie Lee Curtis, in the course of seducing an uptight barrister to gain criminally relevant information, gives them both a genuine sexual awakening. And while both she and John Cleese are good in their roles, I just think they could have…
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Memories of Murder 2003
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Few countries changed as rapidly or as completely as South Korea in the second part of the Twentieth Century. The impoverished backwater that cleaved into two in the aftermath of World War II would by the turn of the millennium become a wealthy, urbanized, technologically advanced society. The path there was not straightforward or pretty - the same government that facilitated this "Miracle on the Han River" was also guilty of undermining personal liberties, suppressing democracy, and committing horrific human…
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Cemetery of Splendor 2015
Profoundly spiritual, mysterious yet familiar, soothing to the point of becoming psychedelic. Dreams, memories, myths, and events lose their distinction. Colors, flavors, and sounds are allowed to breathe like living things. This was my long-awaited first from Apichatpong Weerasethakul; I spent so many years building him up in my mind that this had every opportunity to disappoint me, but I come away from it wanting to see everything of his I can. I’ll leave it there, at risk of over-intellectualizing a film that’s better to experience like a wave washing over you.
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The Brutalist 2024
Underwhelmed by this. It looks nice and it’s well-acted and whom among us doesn’t love some good old-fashioned brutalism, but at the end of the day it’s just a bit… hollow? The pacing is good enough that you don’t feel the runtime much at all, yet with three and a half hours to work with I’d expect it to have a little more to say about the artistic process, the American Dream, Zionism, addiction, trauma, abuse, identity, or really any of the…
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