Yes, it looked great and was original, but other than that I don’t think Burroughs deserves this much adoration.
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The Apartment 1960
Jack Lemon was a very original actor and I can see why so many people speak to highly of him, but I can’t help but wonder if he would make it in todays Hollywood. The movie itself, very well done with the tracking shots and almost artsy framing— it felt like it was newer than the 50’s but was still hanging on to many aspects that make a movie seem distinctly from the 50’s.
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Minamata 2020
The look of this is really great, which makes sense considering it’s a movie, in part, about photography and capturing a moment. Depp was very good in a subdued performance— at first I was sure if Depp could keep it reigned in but, for the most part, he did (all but a couple “f you’s” and Jack Sparrowesque drunken slurring). My only real knock is that I feel like it didn’t stick the landing which, I’d argue, was due to poor secondary character development as the movie was too heavily focused on W. Eugene Smith and not the characters actually dealing with Minamata disease.
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Black Bear 2020
I like the format of this one. Maybe a bit out there for some people, but I feel like if you hang in there the sort of meta/frame only strengthens the second half/ending. Aubrey Plaza literally and figuratively acted her panties off. Chris Abbott was Chris Abbott in a bigly way, but it’s really Plaza’s movie.
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The Informer 2019
I’ve never actually seen where when two guys are fighting over the gun and they’re doing the whole “who can muscle the gun to the other guys head” thing turn into an actual kill shot, until this movie, and I have to say… very fulfilling.
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Easy Money 2010
Expertly plotted which makes it no surprise it was first a book. Would have been 4.5 if not for the ending… maybe too Hollywood for how well and believable everything was set-up.
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