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‘All Quiet’ adaptation fails in every way, but especially upward
2/10 Netflix’ first-ever German language adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front leads the charge of international prestige movies in 2022, releasing pre-packaged with the announcement of its submission for the 95th Academy Awards as a Laser-accurate adaptation of … Continue reading
Edgelord of ‘Babylon’
7/10 About five minutes into Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, an elephant shits directly onto the camera. It’s a point-of-view shot for our main character, Manny Torres (Diego Calva), who is tasked with getting this elephant to a gigantic, depraved party at … Continue reading
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Tagged Babylon, Damien Chazelle, Elephant shits directly onto the camera, La La Land, Margot Robbie
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Another, sadder lens into the past in ‘Empire of Light’
5/10 Empire of Light is a good, quiet little movie that’s sad, thoughtful and breathtakingly beautiful, and I liked it. The Empire Cinema, Ballroom and Restaurant in Margate, England, December, 1980- Hilary Small (Olivia Colman), who works as the theater … Continue reading
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Tagged Empire of Light, Olivia Colman, Roger Deakins, Sam Mendes, The Fabelmans
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Spielberg on Spielberg in autobiography only he could make
8/10 My first movie was Jurassic Park, the unimpeachable knockout that single-handedly changed the course of American culture and cinematic history by being so terrific. As I sit down for The Fabelmans and gather my cynicism for the tail end … Continue reading
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Tagged coming-of-age, Jurassic Park, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
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Gayness, cannibalism, ‘Bones and All’
8/10 I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that the team behind Suspiria is following it up with something described as “the cannibalism movie.” 1988- In Bones and All, an epic romantic cannibal road movie, Maren Yearly (Taylor Russell) is thrown … Continue reading
