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Never Rarely Sometimes Always 2020
Something I really respect about Eliza Hittman's camera is that it's impartial. As with her stellar film Beach Rats, Never Rarely Sometimes Always is focused on Autumn pretty much all the way through the film, often in long takes as her expressive face takes a simple story and turns it up several notches and gives us unobstructed emotions. Sidney Flanigan is exceptional in the lead role, using implied depth to tell the story, not that the substance isn't there in…
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Ad Astra 2019
I can't even describe the things that this film made me think and feel. Complex space dramas are my thing, but this one hit in such a different way that anything else has done. I had the same feeling as when I saw Arrival for the first time. I'm in a frenzy, a dizzying kind of frenzy that I get when I see something I know I'm going to hail as a personal classic.
Ad Astra is a near-perfect film and one of the best sci-fi films I've ever seen.
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All My Friends Hate Me 2021
Cleverly combines a near-constant state of social anxiety with sharp writing and great performances. Loved the third act.
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Boiling Point 2021
It's pleasing to see the 'one-shot' style used for something that actually utilises it well! And Vinette Robinson...my gosh what a performance! Really enjoyed this!
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Uncut Gems 2019
Between its lacklustre, unambiguous screenplay and the spasmodic editing, the Safdie brothers have created what I feel was supposed to be a bold, bombastic look into the life of a man who cons and lies his way into getting more chances than he deserves. Instead, it plays like a frenetic assortment of meaningless cuts, overacting, quasi-improvisational dialogue, and caricatures who fail to communicate any intelligence about anything in particular. Somewhere along the way, Uncut Gems becomes an arrogant charade of itself, masquerading as an anxious time-bomb that has no real stakes.
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