if we listen to this man another minute we shall have no convictions left
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No Hard Feelings 2023
Really wanted to like this! J-Law is a national treasure and the kid is talented. But seriously — on what planet is this being marketed as the return of the sex comedy? The schmaltz-to-sex ratio in this is nowhere near appropriate to deserve that kind of reputation. It needs, oddly, more jokes — it suffers under the mistaken idea that we can only 'care' about the characters and take them 'seriously' if we occasionally interrupt their comic sequences (in which they…
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One from the Heart 1981
Genuinely idiosyncratic in a way that it is impossible not to appreciate. Lovers of Real Cinema will find a lot to admire and cherish, though this has gotta be one of the most obvious flops of all time — one of the most 'heads only' projects ever committed to. The outrageous (used in a good way) formal gambits are exciting, but also rather nonchalantly attached to what amounts to a semi-narrative nothingness that firmly kept it in the realm of curiosity for me. I also have to report that I didn't care that much for the music, which is unfortunate for a musical.
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Oppenheimer 2023
Betting the house against Christopher Nolan remains a sure thing. Script is written by ChatGPT after scanning the Wiki page. (At one point, noted genius J. Robert Oppenheimer attributes “property is theft” to Marx, which is particularly funny because it’s the most famous line by one of his intellectual rivals, in combative response to which he wrote an entire book. Not a big deal, but anyway, just to file under: dumb person’s ideas of a smart movie).
Unable to think…
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The Favourite 2018
feed at the trough of arbitrary directorial impositions and witless “provocations.” who will save us from the interminable boredom of “style”
take a shot every time they say cunt and at least maybe by the end you’ll be dead