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The Daytrippers 1996
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie capture the specific experience of being a family from Jersey driving into the city for the day so perfectly.
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The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976
Such a glorious mess, makes life on Earth look truly strange and brutal in a way very few films of its kind are able to. The off-kilter performances and mis-en-scene, the barrage of near-perfect graphic matches, the low-key, unassuming, cinematography, all adds up to a very special film that does much more than coast on Bowie’s formidable star power.
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Don't Look Up 2021
A lot of my friends have been quite harsh to this movie but I was willing to give it a fair chance. Overall, it’s a pretty limp satire but not as bad as you might have heard. Despite its length it’s easy enough to sit through. There’s some laugh out loud moments and the sense of (sadly familiar) frustration and anxiety is pretty real. However, it refuses to answer quite a few basic questions. Who is this for? Who is…
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2011
Really one of Fincher’s most interesting and troubling works. At first glance, a lurid detective story not unlike Se7en, but really about the internet’s newfound capability to uncover and expose those secrets - rapes, murders, the horrors of fascism - that those in power have tried to keep buried for decades. Lizbeth Salander is a fascinating character handled delicately by Fincher and Rooney, avoiding all clichés and easy answers in their characterization of her. It’s a movie that often opts…
