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Dune 2021
While possessing undoubtedly some of the greatest visual effects the film industry has ever seen, Dune is an embodiment of averageness and complacency. Despite its ground-breaking graphics and visual effects, Dune manages to replicate the same formula we've seen before, a clear repetition of every stereotype of recent film that continues to pull it down. As Paul Byrnes stated perfectly Dune is, “size rather than drama, action rather than character, adrenaline rather than engagement, imitation rather than creation.”
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The Batman 2022
The Batman as a film is not really a superhero movie. But, through that defiance of expectation and cliché, Matt Reeves has granted the film with its own special power. The film is a stunning, dark, noir and gritty take on classic tale, that rivals Christopher Nolan’s "Dark Knight" in many respects.
Through Reeves’ direction, everything feels fresh. He's taken a familiar subject and made it into something operatic, a story and film more akin to a bleak 1970s crime…
