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The Substance 2024
For her sophomore feature, director Coralie Fargeat flips the script on the exploitation/empowerment angle of her stunning debut film Revenge for this nasty EC comics-style cautionary tale about Hollywood's fucked-up standards on age and beauty and its effect on its aging superstars. But while it takes stabs at sleazy studio executives and their gross mistreatment of artists, the satire seems more aimed at its protagonist and her fractured self-image than the industry that imposed that pressure and self-loathing on her…
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Conclave 2024
Adapted from a best-selling novel by Robert Harris, Conclave is primarily the kind of movie audiences are wont to proclaim "they don't make like this anymore": a star-studded mainstream potboiler, not unlike the one's that used to populate multiplexes in the 90's (think Dan Brown by way of John Grisham). But director Edward Berger (All Quiet at the Western Front) treats this all at the level of Serious Drama about Real Important Issues. Combine that with neatly timed real-world circumstances…
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The Rites of May 1976
What I really gravitated to on this viewing was how quiet a horror film this was. Moving at a fairly slow burn, sequences in this either revel in the uneasy quietude of its provincial setting or (true to its title) lurk in pitch-black nighttime ambience, with sound design and minimal lighting doing much of the work in creating a subtle yet ominous sense of dread. For a horror film, there really isn't much in the way of actual scares. Instead,…
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Cloud Atlas 2012
What a beautiful, breathtaking movie.
A beautiful, breathtaking, FLAWED movie to be sure; you know the usual knocks: The make-up isn't always convincing (people rag about Weaving as a woman, but what about Weaving as an evil Korean politician? *shudders*) and the occasional over-emphasis of its main theme reeks of pretension.
But what about it's strengths?
- Staggeringly fluid editing that binds together these separate storylines through cosmic connections or just simply through overlapping music, dialogue, or a sound effect.…Translated from by
