The moment it became a full-on Sam Raimi film (excluding those beautiful whip pans and Dutch angles he’s known for) when Strange, stuck in another universe, controls his reanimated corpse from a parallel world at a pivotal moment, it was GLORIOUS.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Recalls the Chekov’s Gun storytelling principle when if you introduce a butt plug-looking prop in the first act, you better pay it off before the credits.
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Chapter 27 2007
An Oscar Bait film! About the Murderer of John Lennon! Complete with Gratuitous Weight Gain by an Actor to Give the Appearance of Depth When There was None! Dismal Box Office!
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Lawrence of Arabia 1962
No one makes a film like David Lean anymore — I'd also wager that even in his heyday, no one made a film like David Lean.
Here we are: A trifle misfit of a soldier (Peter O'Toole) goes out into the desert on an army fact-finding mission about the unimportant isolated Arab satellite regions during the First World War. He erects the legend and image of himself, unifying the various Arab factions into an uprising against the Turks, and creates the…