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Home 2003
Gerald Ballantine has just been in a car wreck requiring a long period of convalescence. His wife, for reasons that aren't quite enumerated but clearly didn't start with the crash, has moved on and moved out. The outside world seems scary and the connections he has to it seem tenuous. So he decides to sever them completely.
Within the first ten minutes, we're already at the money shot (which is to say Gerald destroying the cash in his wallet) that…
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The Snowshoers 1958
Watched this after reading a Defector piece calling this the most important sports documentary ever made. You wanna know why it’s important? It’s the first one ever to be made totally with a handheld camera! Well before Richard Leacock’s Primary and D.A. Pennebaker’s Dont Look Now and the Maysles brothers’ Salesman, there was this short documentary about people running a snowshoe race in Quebec. And not only is it important, it’s fun and good! It’s not really about the race…
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The Brutalist 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Ten questions The Brutalist could have spent its 3.5 hours answering, instead of just asking and then throwing its hands up and asking us to figure out:
- What the fuck was the point of that rape scene? As best as I can figure, it’s an entirely unnecessary literalization of the already financially predatory relationship between the two men, and its primary plot function is to set up a climax at the end of the film that’s more screamy than…
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