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Past Lives 2023
frustrating movie ultimately about closure that so badly wants you to feel the decades long connection between Nora and Hae Sung but doesn’t do much visually to establish that connection. it’s a connection that spans decades but camera is so dull, dreary and un lively throughout there is no sense of the connection established that survived a few decades. the dreariness in the present day scenes makes sense since there is no spark bring rekindled, Nora has no intention to…
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline 2022
how to blow up a pipeline functions as a decent thriller but ultimately falls apart as a strong political movie.
the movie is most watchable when it’s focusing on the set up of the mission and watching the various eco activists play their roles. where it really struggles with pacing is when it cuts to give backstory and motivation for each of them. i haven’t read the source material so maybe the point of the book and film ultimately is…
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Unstoppable 2010
blue collar pro union storyline.
all the bosses are greedy and evil.
all the cops are idiots and useless.
a movie that realizes chris pine’s ideal look is mining town former high school athlete and not clean cut corporate look.
denzel’s streak of playing blue collar kings continued.
a dude with a sick ass truck gets the final interview
hooters being involved in the storyline.
denzel and pine bonding on the way to their potential deaths and making each other truly smile and laugh.
what’s not to love??? 10 stars. -
They Live by Night 1948
it's wild this motherfucker who looks like he was born a full grown pirate with his eyepatch and never ending half cigarette coming out of his mouth directed some of the most earnestly romantic interactions in american movie history. just an absolute uncanny ability to wreck you with scenes that would have made keats give up writing poems cause he couldn't live up to these moments. moments that feel like you're looking up at the clouds on a sunny 74 degree day and all you can hear is the sound of bees buzzing and the breathing of someone you love laying next to you.
