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  • A Traveler's Needs

    ★★½

  • A Different Man

    ★★★½

  • Mischief

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  • India Song

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  • A Different Man

    A Different Man 2024

    ★★★½ Watched 04 Jan 2025

    Representation in art is a boring subject imo, and it's too bad that this becomes a film largely about itself (viz. the line where depicting a disfigured protagonist shades into exploitation). Much prefer the first half, steeped in the same urban decay as Beau Is Afraid - are we seeing a return of the chaotic 1970s 'New York movie'? - our hero confronted with paranoid threats, from rats in the ceiling to a total stranger maniacally waving, all of them…

  • Juror #2

    Juror #2 2024

    ★★★½ Watched 30 Dec 2024 13

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    Like the man (a.k.a. Clint Eastwood) said: "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it". There's actually an extra twist of the knife in this ingenious moral quandary: its noir models - films like Double Indemnity and Scandal Sheet, where the investigator keeps trying to hide his own involvement in the crime - hinge on having committed some moral slip, the implication being that 'the truth shall set you free', coming clean (getting what you quote-unquote deserve) is painful but good…

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  • Margaret

    Margaret 2011

    ★★★★★ Watched 13 Aug 2012 6

    Held me spellbound for three hours, if nothing else (extended cut, fwiw). 25th HOUR-ish - New York movie, moral drama about Doing the Right Thing, symphonic score over jagged rhythms - also Desplechin-ish for the sweep and scale, but more ambitious than either: an epic of human disconnection, based around the fact that language is such an imperfect way of trying to connect - emotion is easier, but we lose it as we grow older ("It is Margaret you mourn…

  • Space Jam: A New Legacy

    Space Jam: A New Legacy 2021

    ★★ Watched 14 Jul 2021 2

    Everything is product.

    Granny from Tweety and Sylvester fighting in The Matrix because hey, Warner Bros.

    Yet the message of the film is 'Be yourself! Do your own special thing!'.

    We love our corporate overlords.

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