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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
"But then what happens? People forget. They don't remember. They don't care. They just don't care."
Long, but not languid. Moralistic, but not didactic. Grand, but never gaudy. Martin Scorsese, Director Emeritus, once again audits the sins and ghosts of American history, this time in a sprawling and tragic Western.
Joined by his cinema family - his chosen boys and perennial totems Bob and Leo, and of course his faithful apostles Thelma and Robbie Robertson - Scorsese endows us with…
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Oppenheimer 2023
Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" is not self-important. It’s actually important.
It's not often these days that we see a film whose stakes are quite literally the fate of the world that is devoid of aliens and multiverses and intellectual property for children. Nolan proves it's still possible to make pictures of this magnitude about universal consequences, about the future of mankind, without stooping to mind-numbing nonsense.
Few films in the history of cinema - especially not three-hour historical biopics - operate…
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023
I'm not particularly partial to the following: animated films, superhero movies, franchise sequels, Gen Z projects.
Or maybe I am, because this is the best movie of the year.
