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Five Nights at Freddy's 2023
Not sure what the “dream theory” / “using controlled substances to search my memories to find out what happened to my baby brother” / family court shit has to do with the “psycho animatronic enthusiast / kid-friendly restauranteur murders children & puts their corpses in the restaurant animatronics” lore that is (based on a Wiki skim) the nominal plot / lore at the heart of the FNAF game franchise, and based on the last 110+ minutes, neither does this movie, despite…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
I hope Chalamet heeds the warnings about power that Paul ignored & learns how to use his "loud Pacino" voice responsibly.
(& also bless this spectacle for having enough room to accommodate Javier Bardem's goofiness & Rebecca Ferguson's sinister insanity.)
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The Swimmer 1968
As a pointed commentary on "modern living" (b/w some sly scuttlebutt about the gulf between haves and have-nots), as a sympathetic yet unflinching depiction of a man's misspent life, as an embodiment of his fractured delusions, as a cautionary tale about the poisonous allure of nostalgia, as a possibly accidental case of form mirroring function (cf. the mismatched cuts serving to reflect Merrill's addled state of mind), and most definitely as a testament to Burt Lancaster's ability to simultaneously embody virility and vulnerability, this film is 99.99.99% perfect.
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A Most Wanted Man 2014
What Philip Seymour Hoffman says at the end of the film.
Note to other movies: If you want to get on my good side, conflate political bureaucracy with brutalist architecture.