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John Wick: Chapter 4 2023
“loving husband.”
an enervating and feverish display of some of the most ridiculous shit you’ve seen in any action film in quite awhile. frankly, on rewatch it reminds me so much of The Matrix Reloaded: sheer zaniness, weaving from one set-piece to another, and cartoonishly sentimental when need be. it’s more rewarding on additional viewings whereas something like Dead Reckoning diminishes when you return to it. in areas most action films are assembled impetuously, JW4 is assiduously molded to scratch…
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The Northman 2022
I could probably attribute my disdain for this on first viewing as ‘wrong place, wrong time’, but that’s too much of a cop out. At the time of its release, I was still riding the high of The Green Knight–which I’d rewatched profusely up to that point–so perhaps I was expecting something comparable. Imagine my surprise. The Northman is more akin to something like The Revenant, narratively it’s a simple revenge tale, but it taps into an animalistic rage that…
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 2023
clapped at the end of the movie like my plane just landed.
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Blonde 2022
A grueling, hypnotic, yet deeply moving examination of stardom, bereft of catharsis (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood this is not). The Fire Walk With Me comparisons check out, it’s enmeshed in a similar harrowing misery that’s anchored by a titanic performance, and at a certain point it’s just as weird and illusive. It’s seriously a technical masterclass, hubristic filmmaking that plays with aspect ratios, color, dreams vs reality and the fusion of the two, etc. It’s all handled with…
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Three Thousand Years of Longing 2022
an immensely tedious, pseudo-intellectual, and vapid “odyssey” that truly feels never-ending. don’t be fooled by the trailer. this has got to be one of the most exhausting things I’ve seen in the past couple of years. a philosophical nightmare.
