A masterpiece. Though it's still 2024 and this remains the American studio film with the largest disabled cast.
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Spellbound 1945
Constance Petersen isn’t a Hitchcock leading lady, but a rather stereotypical and underdeveloped character. There’s no complexity or history to Constance as there was with Bergman’s character in Notorious; if anything, Constance Petersen is an early prototype for Notorious‘ Alicia Huberman. I wish Hitchcock had delved deeper into Constance’s obviously hostile relationship with her fellow doctors, all male. Constance is the only female, and the other doctors spend a great deal of time flirting with her and committing other minor…
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Avatar: The Way of Water 2022
Beaaautifully shot. Beatuuuifully shot.
But the story is a tired rehash of the original film (actually literal in one respect). There are so many great actors that you won't know are in this because their names are barely used. (Like, did you know Kate Winslet is here. Yep, kind of a big deal.) There's another tired mystical disabled plotline that I was not here for. I just need Jim Cameron to make something else, please.
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Wonka 2023
I have absolutely no idea who this movie is made for. Honestly, we might need to all just be okay with Willy Wonka not being an interesting character. No one asked for "how he became a capitalist entrepreneur," did we? There are moments where Chalamet is good and as many moments where he feels horribly miscast and is starring a bad SNL skit. Paul King's humor is evident and the production design is beautiful, but the plot is so freaking…