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A patient slow-burn that requires its audience to dig deeper than what is shown on the surface. The first half of the movie had me utterly lost with respect to the characters' motivations and the reasoning behind everyone's actions, but Jane Campion's persistent, evocative directorial style kept my interest hooked despite my initial troubles with the story. The first viewing left me with a desperate urge to rewatch this film in order to understand its characters more properly, and so…

Goldiggin' for love.

It saddens me that I didn't enjoy this as much as I thought I would, up until now George Clooney has always given solid performances but I guess this is just a slight bump on the road in my journey through his filmography. Catherine Zeta Jones on the other hand had the weaker performance, and her character was so one dimensional and frankly I don't think she meant to be likeable because could not see why Clooney's…

Watched in the cinema (66th visit in 2021-a new record🥳)

When the first pictures of the "House of Gucci" set appeared, the titular family was horrified. The cast proved to be pure miscasting, the actors were far too ugly. Al Pacino and Jared Leto in particular were harshly criticized by one of the representatives of the Italian fashion dynasty, who accused the production on behalf of the entire family of misusing the Gucci image as a Hollywood label for the…

Time to stay alive.

Three star classic, and I think I could possibly be easily talked into going up to three and a half stars. I believe part of why this has the reception it has is that, for a work from "the master of horror," and a film that for sure is trying to have horror set up as a component of it, this isn't very scary. If you're going into this for that genre specifically, you're going to…

I greatly wish Alicia Vikander just kept her natural accent, because her attempts at an American accent were terrible. Decent performance otherwise!

I was actually genuinely enjoying this for the first 30-35 minutes — the motorcycle set-piece in particular is a highlight — before a certain story choice happens, which sums up the problems with this film: it’s mostly just a dull and trite retread further plagued by baffling story choices. For instance, why would you even kill off Nicky…

Hearing Kirsten Dunst say "Peter" so many times, even if it happens to be to her son in this film, instantly activated something in my brain which can only be described as "a pleasant sensation sprung out of reminiscence". The same brain which also still and presently ignores the existence of Spider-Man 3 (remember when movie sequels had numbers in the title?). The same brain that also acknowledges a purdy and well-crafted Western with a performance of note by Benedict…

Based on a true story from the late 1300s, "The Last Duel" is about a trial by combat between Jean de Carrouges (Matt Damon) and Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver). Carrouges's wife, Marguerite, (Jodie Comer) has accused Le Gris of rape. Le Gris maintains that they merely committed adultery and that Marguerite manufactured the rape claim so that her husband wouldn't kill her. Jean challenges Le Gris to a duel for the honor of his wife, maybe, but mostly because…

Because reality is real.

It's all aboard with the Spielberg hype train, and it's well-earned, of course. I'm looking forward to the re-discovery a lot of people are going to be having of "Oh, is Steven Spielberg just like the best ever?" In preparation for West Side Story, I wanted to at least watch one of his films I hadn't seen before, and I figured that I might as well do the one that's the most popular: Ready Player One.…

You’ve obviously got to hand it to the Wachowski sisters; having earned the clout to do just about whatever they want with film, they’re steadfast in their commitment to realising their own passion projects that resist bowing down to popular ideas and overriding philosophies. Instead of concocting the type of tired superhero clone that might secure mass appeal, they develop colourful films in which Mila Kunis is the genetic heir to the Earth, half-dog Channing Tatum fights giant anthropomorphic iguanas,…