A Hallmark romance that looks like a Pinterest account masquerading as a film about the legacy of domestic abuse. Astonishingly vain, washed out and blandly affluent. Now essential background viewing for Hollywood gossip.
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Emilia Pérez 2024
A miracle of marketing that this risible Almodovar parody is touted as daring cinema. A depthless soap opera whose toe-curling musical sequences provide bizarre distraction from a plodding and cliched cartel drama. The best musicals open up the interior worlds of characters; here the songs merely explain what’s happening and tell us how characters are feeling, opening the lid on the garbage.
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Poor Things 2023
Lanthimos likes an outlandish high concept, and in his best films the conceit is architecture for grounded black comedy and satirical drama. But he also has a penchant for the purely aesthetic, for the quirky and the absurd. Here the most ludicrous of ‘what-ifs’ - a woman brought back from the dead with the brain of her own baby - is indulged and allowed to float around aimlessly, like one of the inexplicable belch-bubbles regurgitated by Willem Dafoe’s creator/butcher, God. …
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A Complete Unknown 2024
The Hollywood pop biopic is now practically a genre. With Walk the Line and A Complete Unknown, Mangold is perhaps the genre’s most elegant and sophisticated custodian with a meticulous attention to period detail and respectful appreciation for the music itself. But these films are nonetheless part of a cycle including Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocket Man: risk adverse introductions to the defining songs and moments of the most successful bands and artists in the history of popular culture. The bar…
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