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Listen to me carefully: this is not a good movie. It's unevenly plotted, overly long, poorly edited, and wretchedly photographed. Tom Hooper's directorial style seems to be "point the camera…

Part of the December Project: Film #66

I'm too disappointed to write a full paragraph style review, so I'm just going to dissect it piece by piece:

Music numbers:

Some…

The December Challenge: Film #110

Adaptation is a self-indulgent, solipsistic and dizzying descent into the troubled craft of creation: specifically the creation of a screenplay adaptation based on an unfilmable…

Alan Clarke directing David Bowie in an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s first play sounds both brilliant and terrible - but is it terribly brilliant or brilliantly terrible? The answer is…

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.