I would have watched this film a lot earlier had I known it were a murder mystery/courtroom drama about a husband found mysteriously dead—and filmed as a curiously sun-lit, snow-bound noir, at that! Sandra Hüller got rightfully lauded (and Oscar-nominated) for walking that electric tightrope that so many iconic femme fatales have, teetering between potential guilt and innocence. But the hidden gem here is Milo Machado-Graner as her blind son, who gets his best moments in the film's final act, echoing other adolescent turns as Sarah Polley in The Sweet Hereafter or Kodi Smit-Phee in The Power of the Dog.
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A Real Pain 2024
There's a thinkpiece here about Jewish Americans (among other tourists) trying to reconnect with a traumatic heritage of which they were not a part, or the Holocaust eclipsing all other forms of lived suffering, but I mostly cannot get over the hilarity of Jesse Eisenberg being a Quentin Tarantino for his own WikiFeet page. They're a decent set of feet, to be fair.
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All of Us Strangers 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
My biggest problem with this film is that it comprises two threads—one on grief over one's lost-too-soon parents, the other on an urban queer cross-generational romance—that never quite come together, except when it comes to an awkward film-ending twist that feels like the movie ran out of budget, or the screenwriter out of ideas.
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Jackie Brown 1997
Perhaps the greatest tragedy of Quentin Tarantino's career was that the lukewarm response to Jackie Brown had him scurrying back into making the same libidinal, bloodthirsty movies for which he initially drew acclaim, even though this movie stands so profoundly against those values.
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. Watching this as a younger Tarantino fan, I didn't yet have the inroads I needed into this: the various nuances of Black American survivalism and language; the dead air of suburban…
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