Kind of a dud for me. Is this a faithful adaptation? Cuz I'm assuming a lot of my issues go back to the source material. The mystery hooks immediately went sailing right past me when rich old Christopher Plummer establishes that he's hiring Daniel Craig to just take a wild stab at solving this big mystery from friggin 40 years earlier. And then so much of it seemed Scooby-Doo'd the fuck out with so much riding on being able to…
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Poor Things 2023
Big 2: Sympathy for Lady Frankenstein
Pretty interesting one. Wasn't a complete success for me. Some of the comedy was surprisingly broad wimpy stuff. Sometimes the heavy doses of style were big whiffs. Then there were some flavors that came off a bit rehash-y after (the superior IMO) THE FAVOURITE, like the stings of wide-lens cinematography and even a wacky little modern-skewing dance comedic sequence?? (sigh) Again?? C'mon now, Yorgos. Some diminishing returns here.
A few weaker lulls, but this…
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Godzilla Minus One 2023
Honestly, I wasn't really that into it. The kaiju attacks and destruction n stuff was all pretty good and gnarly, but that's like 4% of this flick. The rest is this morose-ass prestige period melodrama that was so thin and flimsy that I couldn't really give much of a shit about it. That may be a personal taste issue, but I found all of that deep heavy stuff to be so completely weightless and broad and ineffective in its emotional…
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Piggy 2022
I was hoping for some Catherine Breillat's FAT GIRL flavor, so I came away a little disappointed. This flick's just not even close to being in the same league for me, although it's going in such a different direction that it's almost unfair to compare 'em. I guess there's a level of arthouse style in both. Some kinda brutal realism that both of our "fatties" will have to endure and navigate, but FAT GIRL is like a boxing technician. Dancing…
