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The French Dispatch 2021
Mr. Anderson is extraordinarily pleased with how clever he is. I remain less convinced. All this frantic yet mechanical show quickly gets tiresome. The director is merely the sum of his mannerisms now and feels he must sprint to the end - and what, in the end, does the film amount to? He attempts to dazzle to hide the poverty of substance; the film has all the depth of a typical "action" pic. I miss the strain of melancholy that…
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What Is a Woman? 2022
Crikey, what a world we live in, kids! This bunch "identify" as Left and think those who "identify" as Right are insane, and that bunch "identify" as Right and think those who "identify" as Left are insane. I say you're both bonkers, primarily because you both spend the greater portion of your waking hours in that cesspool of lunacy and poisonous stupidity called the internet. Turn off your little phones and laptops now and then. Stop watching TV ("That other…
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The Power of the Dog 2021
Campion is one of those directors who are skilled at creating a certain atmosphere (Lynch, Tarantino, Ferrara, and Tier are others who spring to mind), but whose films are all more or less silly. This dog is rather more than less. Though set in a La-La Land called "Montana, 1925" the movie is calculated to impress those who subscribe to fashionable 21st century sentiments. The lady is driven to insanity by "toxic masculinity"; the toxic male himself has a deep dark secret (no prize for guessing what it is); and one of the main characters is a petulant "millennial."
