Hustle – Review
Category: 2.5 Stars
Dual – Review
“Amusing from moment to moment and well-performed, but leaves so much on the table once it indicates how much deeper it actually wants to go.”
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“It’s good at establishing ambience and assembling a careful tension, but when it comes to showing us the reveals that it’s been building towards, it stumbles.”
Continue reading “All the Old Knives – Review”Kimi – Review
“When it feels like Kimi doesn’t reach as far as it’s intriguing, albeit familiar, setup might suggest, it’s still evident that the movie that’s here has been carefully and intelligently assembled.”
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“Uninterested in giving us answers, or maybe not even in asking that many questions. Sometimes this works, though in other times, the movie’s liminal style leaves it with paradoxically little room.”
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“For it to really work, the movie can’t ever break from an intimate connection with these people and their lives, and Branagh is too complacent here, overconfident in the belief that the inherent emotional significance of this story is enough.“
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“Strongest when it gives us enough distance from the protagonist’s mind to plunge into the details of his frenzied perspective, and weakest when it’s too tethered to each of his assumptions to really think beyond the immediate present.”
Continue reading “Tick, Tick… Boom! – Review”Escape Room: Tournament of Champions – Review
“A breezy follow-up when it’s fully in sync with its possibilities and parameters, but the movie can’t always keep up what’s actually a pretty precarious balance.”
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“This is a gorgeous movie that accomplishes quite a lot, but it’s sometimes too opaque explore its world and ideas as deeply or as immediately as it should.“
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