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Love Lies Bleeding 2024
wasn’t entirely sure it would elevate after the first twenty minutes or so, despite a great opening credits sequence, but clear that Glass has the juice about halfway through. like Saint Maud, this one is at its best when it plays with the tension between the corporeal and the psyche, and watching how she pushes that is thrilling. a blast to watch, to listen to when the score kicks in, to let it wash over you when it breaks from reality. super exciting, continue to look forward to Glass’s future work.
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Dune: Part Two 2024
elevated Marvel.
not sure if it’s burdened by the source material, but despite Villeneuve making a more cohesive film this time he, surprisingly for a work so enamored with spectacle, doesn’t really land on much fun or excitement. some may contend that is the point, the story we are watching is the rise of a tyrant, the weaponization of religion, the preservation of a oppressive power structure. it shouldn’t be fun, we should be horrified by the the protagonists as…
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Nope 2022
a title that says it all. while the film, in its hodgepodge of genre toying, reaches and prods at more ideas than it reasonably cares to tackle, it ultimately feels like a mess of leftovers spewed from the maw. all the depth of a sketchbook, with the expected gaps that invite exploration, but end in speculation. i can see the tissue holding it all together, and the performers make it bearable for the most part, yet even Peele’s assured camera in its most free moments gets engulfed.
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Booksmart 2019
There's this thing at KFC called a famous bowl that has, like, chicken, mashed potatoes, corn, cheese, and gravy all mixed together, which are all elements that are, on their own, varying levels of good, but then you mix them all together in to one abomination and realize that you are just eating garbage. This film is kind of like that.