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More of the same excellence in Fincher’s ‘The Killer’
9/10 Director David Fincher, backed by Netflix, has been angling for awards lately, first with flagship series “House of Cards,” then a black-and-white stab at the great American biopic with Mank, and now The Killer, another American arthouse cliché of … Continue reading
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Tagged Atticus Ross, David Fincher, Fight Club, John Wick: Chapter 4, Mank, Michael Fassbender, Netflix, The Killer, Trent Reznor
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‘The Batman’ is a triumph
9/10 The Batman is a grueling marathon of angst and anxiety, the perfect balance of a wannabe-hardcore crime story and the real fears that undergird its telling. It is a bold statement of and about Batman in media that could … Continue reading
Did they really do a full Academy Awards show for 2020?
I spent January dicking around, procrastinating on the usual year-end routines for a film writer. Going through those particular motions after 2020, acting like we’d gotten a full slate of movies, felt dishonest. It felt boring. I didn’t do a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, 93rd Academy Awards, Aaron Sorkin, Academy Awards, Another Round, Anthony Hopkins, Birds of Prey, Chadwick Boseman, Chloe Zhao, coronavirus, COVID-19 crisis, Daniel Kaluuya, David Fincher, Francis Mcdormand, Fred Hampton, Gary Oldman, Judas and the Black Messiah, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Mank, Minari, Mulan, Netflix, Nomadland, Oscars, Oscars 2021, Pieces of a Woman, Shia LaBeouf, Tenet, The Father, Trial of the Chicago 7, Vanessa Kirby
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‘Mank’ a decent Welles impression at the expense of a Fincher movie
7/10 Mank is a fine film and certainly more than you could expect from a typical Oscar-season offering, but something’s missing. March 1940, Victorville, California- Outcast Hollywood screenwriter Herman J. “Mank” Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman), confined to his bed with a … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Dance, Citizen Kane, David Fincher, Donald Trump, Fight Club, Gary Oldman, HBOmax, Mank, Netflix, Orson Welles, Warner Bros, William Randolph Hearst
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