Independent film critic. Progressive po' boy. Moviegoing romantic. Member of SEFCA.
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The Zone of Interest 2023
The business of upward mobility and "corporate" ladder-climbing to maintain the life you feel is deserved. It's an ugly and evil world, but also boring and unflattering. This movie accurately depicts all of that, and it is anything but uninteresting. It's all in the editing. It's all in the details that we miss or mean to miss, until the bitter end.
Unlike anything that's been seen or may ever be seen. Sandra Huller is brilliant as the embodiment of a…
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Circus of the Scars: The Insider Odyssey of the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow 2022
Anything but ho-hum, even when the few personal conflicts that linger are treaded on lightly by the cast, 'Circus of the Scars' has a magical and progressive look of the present and toward the future, with a humble attitude to a past of youthful adventures filled with startling skills of shock.
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9/11 2017
Utterly deplorable. Horrid melodrama with a time and setting used only for dramatic exploitation. Nothing new is revealed or anything found within us, just people weeping, bickering, coughing and yelling like Nolan's Batman. When you use green screen, cgi smoke and desaturated lighting to indicate fiery conditions, you're telling me how cheap and uncreative you are. Rushed through to ... make a buck? To capitalize on ... that sweet 9/11 nostalgia we all share? Why was this movie made? It…
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Lemon 2017
An unsung classic of human communication - how we say and don't say things. Something deep festers under the surface, perhaps expressing something beyond the misery and social awkwardness at the forefront. Conceived and executed with theatrical grace and staging, performed with dull headaches and gaps of unseen space between one another, this is a movie of multiple wavelengths operating within seemingly simple scenes.
Nothing is "normal", exterminate all "rational" behavior. You may come to these conclusions, too.