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  The Killer 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Nov 2023

  David Fincher’s quick and dirty action thriller about an unnamed assassin teaching sigma male grindset. This is — and I don’t say this as a criticism — the roughest movie Fincher has ever made, deploying for the first time in his career lots of shaky handheld photography to mimic the cracks forming in the central character’s methodical processes and worldview.

  With the move to Netflix for his now second feature, The Killer looks and feels like the famously demanding and…

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  Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Nov 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  A very good work from everybody involved, and the kind of big expensive epic that studios’ll never make once Scorsese’s generation of directors all die off. Scorsese has been interested in the fundamentals of this story his whole career: cruel and stupid American men who will quite literally do anything to make it rich: including in this case systematically killing off your wife’s entire family. He paints a picture of America as irredeemable, spiritually empty, corrupt, and virtueless as Casino…

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