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The Salesman 2016
Iranians love concocting the most unique and nuanced moral dilemmas in their films. I found this one actually payed off. The acting was stellar, and I'm a sucker for play-within-a-play devices.
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The Swimmers 2022
The story itself is a poignant and (as far as I know) accurate depiction of refugees' plight. But the movie can't figure out what kind of story it wants to tell, interrupting its own narrative every few minutes with abrupt changes in mood.
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Nomadland 2020
I think this movie has about twenty minutes of fat that would be better suited in a director's cut. With that out of the way, I thoroughly enjoyed how viscerally depressing it is. It forces the viewer to reflect about the nature of possessions, wealth, and relationships. Francis McDormand does an excellent job toeing the line of a mental breakdown but somehow keeping it all together. And David Straithairn's performance was superb!
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The Trial of the Chicago 7 2020
Sacha Baron Cohen is fun as hell to watch in this. Can't remember the last time I saw Joseph Gordon Levitt playing a bad guy, but in this movie he's a cute teddy bear who happens to be on the wrong side of justice.
You can tell it's from the same writer as A Few Good Men, since the courtroom drama is both is mesmerizing. What's missing here, which was present in A Few Good Men, is moral ambiguity (especially inside the courtroom). I'm slapping 3.5 stars on this bad boi because part of me resists heavy-handed moralizations from on high.
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