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“The Gates of Hell are open night and day.”
You would never guess an eighty-six-year-old man directed this film if you didn’t already know. A resounding thumbs up and welcome signs of life from one of cinema’s most enduring gladiators Ridley Scott.
“Gladiator II” is an epic pseudo-historical saga of vengeance imposed against the striking grandeur and iconography of Ancient Rome (well, a computer’s rendering of Ancient Rome). The physical and technological production is among the best Scott has ever…
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★★★★½ Watched 18 Nov 2024
“I love my husband and I’m gonna be with him forever.”
A dizzying and electrified Cinderella story as seen through the eyes of the wickedly captivating Ani and a gaggle of Russian imbeciles. Sean Baker’s magnum opus wears many faces: at once deeply poignant and caustically funny; frankly intimate and breathlessly kinetic; an undivided character study and a broad indictment on America.
Mikey Madison (who is not set on fire in this film) exerts the gravitational pull of a planet.…
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“I’m in a play!”
Heartbreaking. Heartwarming. Hopeful.
“Ghostlight” is the most moving film of the year. Of the sixty-some 2024 features I have seen thus far, this is the first to bring me to tears… admittedly, over and over again.
Co-directed by Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson (with a script from O’Sullivan), “Ghostlight” examines a family’s unexpected catharsis in the wake of profound tragedy when father and construction worker Dan (Keith Kupferer) joins a ragtag troupe of actors in an…
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“I am a creep… I’m a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here?”
A charming, spiritually curious Englishman teaches two young Mormon women about the importance of Monopoly and copyright law. Also, some other stuff happens.
A film about determinism and deception, “Heretic” is pure stimuli for both your adrenal glands and religious persuasions.
A remarkable triumvirate of performances from Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher, and Hugh Grant. No film ever has leveraged Grant’s magnetic Anglo-arrogance so successfully. In fact,…
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★★★★½ Watched 23 May 2024
“There must be retribution.”
Furiosa, darkest of angels. Fifth rider of the apocalypse.
Any tempered expectations I may have had going into this film have since been wrangled, quartered, and shattered beneath the tires of a motorcycle-drawn chariot. In other words, enshrine it in Valhalla. “Furiosa” delivers.
Propulsive, irreverent, subversive. Astoundingly ambitious. An engine running on unbridled horsepower with a perverse sense of humanity. It’s also explosive. Very, very explosive.
There is no world builder like George Miller. He is…
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“Someone’s trying to kill us. We are trying to kill them.”
Visceral, propulsive, and upsetting. A film about the horrors of war and the breakdown of communication.
“Civil War” is certainly provocative, but not in the way you might expect. Garland doesn’t necessarily parse his film’s political mythology, much less the real contemporary landscape of American politics. He extricates the audience from the baggage of reality; it’s surprisingly alleviating, if not perhaps a little cowardly.
I am concerned that people…
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