mm has written 131 reviews for films during 2020.
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Wonder Woman 1984 2020
I’ll say this of Wonder Woman 1984: Chris Nolan (and many others before) said in a recent interview that the only time he’d ever felt like he’d wasted time at a movie is when he didn’t feel like the filmmakers thought it was the best movie ever.
In that sense, I did not feel like I wasted my time watching Wonder Woman 1984.
The last act, with so many other things happening, is a plea to everyone to be better versions… -
Let Them All Talk 2020
Wow, this was really great!
I dug the score, the mysteries, the performances and the subtext. Soderbergh’s minimalist style has really grown on me since he’s come back, and here it’s at its most soothing.
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 2020
Any movie where someone curses at god gets a pass from me. Too bad Chadwick didn’t do it in Latin!
Adapt 👏 more 👏 plays 👏 into 👏 movies👏
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Mank 2020
As you can see in my bio, my star rating philosophy is very simple. I judge a film both on its quality and my own enjoyment.
Mank is a 4.5 on the former, but a 2 on the latter, so here we are, stuck in the middle but shading towards the craftmanship, which is exceptional. The meat of the story unfortunately is not comparable to Fincher’s prior work, of which I’ve loved every film without Edward Norton and a 3…
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A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote 2020
Very nice and very sweet. Although once again they completely ignore that the Hartfield’s Landing episode makes no sense canonically.
Ah well. I love this show and these people. And I believe that we will win.
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The Trial of the Chicago 7 2020
For his second directorial effort, Aaron Sorkin went into the archives, reviving a script that was long thought abandoned.
By happenstance, its journey has brought it into a world reliving many of the issues it addresses. Progressive voices fighting against the Democratic establishment, police brutality (ACAB!) and state-sanctioned assassinations are all pushed to the forefront of a slick, entertaining, but sometimes frustratingly centrist story that's sure to make a lot of old white dudes feel good about themselves, a la…
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Enola Holmes 2020
Other than the five minutes where a kid gets garroted and shot and Enola commits manslaughter and watches a guy’s life leave his eyes, this was cute?
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The Devil All the Time 2020
Resurrection
Uhhhh, ok. If your goal was to make a film in which everyone has a bad time, congratulations!!
Devil All The Time is a story of evil preachers, violence of all kinds and murder, serving the main theme that things are BLEAK in the flyover states.
For those reasons, I spent much of the runtime asking why this needs to exist. The answer appears to be giving Robert Pattinson another wild supporting role in an ok he can do…
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things 2020
Not much to say about this. It’s weird, uncomfortable and disorienting, like all Kaufman joints are. Whether he’s weird for weirds sake or an important artistic voice of the 21st century is not a question I’m qualified to answer.
I probably won’t like any film of his more than Anomalisa. That’s fine by me.