This is one of those year-end movies where I feel mildly befuddled by the overwhelming praise. I mean, on the one hand, I get it: there are a couple of really solid performances, the whole thing is shot and lit with expert care, it's occasionally darkly funny, etc. But the thing as a whole just doesn't work for me: I don't care for the melodramatic tone, I found the musical choices offputting even if I think I understood what Haynes…
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Silent Night 2023
So SILENT NIGHT’s gimmick is that it has almost no dialogue; the lead gets shot in the throat and goes off for revenge against the Mexican gangsters who killed his kid. The first (almost only) line is delivered during a radio news broadcast, when the host explains that interest rates are going up to combat out of control inflation. And this is all set during a montage of the lead seeing crime everywhere (drug dealers, etc) with “fuck the police”…
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Sound of Freedom 2023
Competently shot and well-acted with a very good cast, though giving off strong "eat your vegetables" vibes. (This is as much like homework as any black-and-white classic or modern oscar-bait movie that gets tagged with the "veggies" label.)
At the end of the movie, Jim Caviezel comes on the screen and gives a "thanks for coming to the movies, this is the power of theaters" speech of the sort we've seen a lot of at the BEGINNING of movies (most…
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