It’s not a bad movie, but it’s not good either. The premise has lots of potential (Spielberg’s autobiographical story of how he fell in love and found comfort in the world of cinema), but that potential is underused and the overall result is surprisingly bland.
The characters are poorly built and poorly explored and their emotions and reactions are strange. They’re either sudden or unprompted, often unjustified and exaggerated, or completely inappropriate for the scene. It feels like they don’t…
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All Quiet on the Western Front 2022
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It’s interesting to see a WW1 movie that tells the story from the perspective of the losing side. We rarely think about the losing side.
War, particularly in recent times, is ever-present and this movie offers a particularly poignant look into its horrors. We see hundreds of young German men, victims of propaganda, arriving confident and eager at the front, and quickly realizing what they’re in for isn’t what they expected, but can’t turn back. Hundreds and thousands of…Translated from by
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TÁR 2022
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This movie is a slow punch in the gut. It starts us off with an opportunity to get to know and like our protagonist, Lydia Tár, a conductor of great intellingence and talent, and a feminist lesbian icon. We’re so impressed that we don’t notice the signs that something is wrong until much later on.
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