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Oppenheimer 2023
Oppenheimer is not a biobic.
It is largely uninterested in the historic events it depicts nor in the emotional life of its central figure.
Instead, Nolan uses Robert Oppenheimer as a mirror for the audience to project themselves into. A way for us to feel the grief and despair writ large in a moral conundrum between choosing to halt scientific or artistic progress for humanity, or give additional power to our corporate and governmental overlords, who are completely uninterested in…
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Babylon 2022
Utterly blown away by this wild, propulsive, orgiastic evisceration of the corrupting power of Hollywood!
It is the anti-Singing in the Rain, a nihilistic look at periods of transition in art, and how the powers funding that art will chew up and spit out the artists who don't fit their new definition of the form.
And then when we look back on these periods, revering the art and adoring the actors and creatives, we forget to humanize them and think…
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Poor Things 2023
Still love this film on a second viewing! So funny, so sincere, and so rooted deeply in humanity while still producing some of the wildest images you'll ever see!
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Three Identical Strangers 2018
While this is a bizarrely fascinating story, it is presented as a series of "big reveals", without really digging into the emotional trauma of the situation.
Facts are presented in a signposted manner, such that otherwise throw-away lines scream "this will be important later", making each reveal feel like a clinical piece of a puzzle, rather than an event that had a real emotional impact on the individuals at the heart of the story.
In the end, you are left feeling like you heard a sensationalist story to sprinkle into dinner conversation, but didn't really learn anything new about humanity.
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Suspiria 2018
Suspiria is art-house horror at its most pretentious and impenetrable, but if you can resonate on its unique wavelength, you will find a film experience like no other this year.
The plot is simple, and borrows its basic premise from Dario Argento's 1977 masterwork: Susie Bannion, a young woman from small-town America, arrives at the Markos Dance Academy in Berlin and soon discovers that it is run by a coven of witches. This simple story masks a sprawling, thematically dense…