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Black Bag 2025
an entertaining exercise in schtick: fassbender as the cold tactician, blanchett as the vaguely menacing hand-dirtier, brosnan as the elder statesman, soderbergh/koepp as the exquisite corpse of le carré, christie and, well, soderbergh. it’s a riff but it’s delightful
EDIT: I ALMOST FORGOT THE “UP THE JUNCTION” NEEDLE DROP. incredible
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Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol 2011
a much-needed injection of goofs and gags
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The Brutalist 2024
unfortunately, I am right down the middle on this one. while gorgeous to look at and expertly paced, this film has so much on its mind that it comes down with a case of metaphorical mushmouth. every character, location, component part of the whole is semiotically underbaked and cliched and, unlike his idols (patron saints of cinema) like PTA and Coppola, Corbet is unable to synthesize potentially well-trod archetypes and story structures into something new. there is a lot to…
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