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Mickey 17 2025
So many aspects to appreciate: Robert Pattinson perfecting both wimpiness and menace with his dual role, sci-fi production design that feels lived-in and tangible, Jung Jae-il's hypnotically tender score accessing the capitalistic nightmares and the humanities of the odd characters, Naomi Ackie's refreshingly compelling love interest, the many great side performances (Yeun, Ruffalo, Collette, Ferran and many more), Bong Joon Ho's modest but often just on point filming, the surprising amount of heart and plenty of stuff to dive into…
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The Brutalist 2024
With all the talk about the film's momentousness, important subject matter(s), comparisons to other epics, and its impressive scale given the budget, I was struck by the amount of modesty and gentleness that there is in The Brutalist. The shooting style stays close to the characters (fittingly claustrophobic at many points for quite repressed charactes), avoiding a constant emphasis on scale or being overly assaultive, the score includes several lightly beautiful pieces, the events of the story aren't overly grand…
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Joker: Folie à Deux 2024
An awful movie and an especially awful sequel. Doesn't build on the first film in any meaningful way, just stagnates inside it while interrogating it in the most obvious and tedious of ways. Lady Gaga basically plays a Joker (2019) fan and her dialogue is painfully surface level, always teetering on the edge of literally talking about the first film. With this level of dialogue I would have much rather just watched a video of Todd Phillips ranting at the…
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