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Munich 2005
Watching September 5 caused me to go back and rewatch this for the first time since I saw it in theaters. It's hard to see Munich without the current context and obviously a lot has changed in the way liberal America (which is to say Hollywood) views Israel. It would be easy to give Spielberg some kind of credit for making a movie whose core message is that vengeance is corrosive as being prescient. But politically speaking he's mainstream and…
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The Brutalist 2024
Saw this on IMAX and it looked stunning. The 35mm VistaVision scans of the Italian rock quarry or Doylestown's hilly expanse looked as good as some of the low-light bedroom shots. This movie's budget was less than one tenth of Wicked, which looked like shit.
But the grandness, and the ambition of what Corbet is trying to get at here, exposes the smallness of what he ends up accomplishing in, like, actual storytelling. Lazlo Toth is an uncompromising visionary because…
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A Complete Unknown 2024
I love Dylan, so this movie more than cleared my pretty low bar of getting to hear his 1963-65 output. Chalamet and Ed Norton are great.
Movie doesn't directly interrogate Dylan's politics, which at this point most people know were very loosely held. Instead it showed Dylan as an obsessive writer who just wanted to put out poetic sounding songs and tour with his back to the audience for the rest of his life. Maybe his work moved people to…
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