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After Life 1998

★★★★★ Rewatched 26 Nov 2024 1

There's a bit in this movie where it begins to snow through a skylight. We work our way outside where it softly, gently blankets the office park for angels. It's the sort of feeling that only this medium could give you. It's the sort of feeling that flips a switch that makes Liam cry.

There's so much in that image. Way too much. Suddenly I'm thinking about how many snowfalls I'll have left in my life. Suddenly I'm realizing that…
Gladiator II 2024

Watched 22 Nov 2024

If you think this movie is too broad and wet, I wonder when the last time you saw Gladiator was. Movies do not pack greater bredth and moisture than that. And that one didn't even have Denzel.
Paul Mescal is not miscast and he's certainly not giving a poor performance - it's just not Russel Crowe. The deficit of movie star charisma is filled out by Washington and Pascal serviceably. The closer performance comp would be Andy Serkis as an ape.

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