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Rated Moby Dick 6/10
Huston has made some memorable movies but Moby Dick is not one of them. The cast seems to have been skimmed off a tub of lard, with Gregory Peck totally out of his depth as Captain Ahab, unable to convey the main character blind obsession and descent into madness. The choice of casting Austrian actor Friedrich von Ledebur as Polynesian Queequeg only adds to the overall silliness. There is some good stuff like Orson Welles cameo as Father Mapple, the gathering at the harbour by by those left behind, the vastness of the sea, but as a whole the movie is is a clumsy production and it shows. At least Moby Dick gets to live another day and I will always be grateful to Melville for penning that open ending.
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Rated Sambizanga 1/10
I think my biggest issue with Sambizanga is its opening wall of text setting up internal conflicts, revolution, and any number of other things that just...aren't actually relevant to the plot. A man is abducted and tortured, while his wife tries to track him down. That could have worked were it not for the setup leaving me with very different expectations for the tone and events of the film, but even so it spends too much time cutting away to this other subplot about some locals who see the abductors bring their victim in.
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Rated Avatar: Fire and Ash 6/10
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《Once We Were Us》 Review
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Rated I Am Not a Witch 10/10
A quirky and darkly funny anti-fairy tale where the little girl - who is obviously, from the outset, just a regular orphaned kid, not a witch - is exploited by a greedy local politician.
Without giving anything away, there’s some darkly funny scenes plus a couple of sweet moments - but ultimately it’s doomed to be a grim tale.
The movie is fairly short, with some lovely visual flourishes along the way.
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Rated The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo 4/10
Blandine Bellavoir continue d'être épatante même dans des rôles peu épais. Fanny Cottençon en fait des caisses dans le rôle de la maman, ce qui dessert le propos du film déjà très basique. Petit téléfilm sympatoche quoi. Note : Mère attachiante / 20
Rated One Piece Film Red 6/10
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Rated The Odyssey 6/10
This review may contain spoilers.I spent the last two days trying to grapple with it, but it did little for me I am afraid. The positives first: yes, yes, the spectacle. It's a long movie, but it stuck the landing for me with the "we are the sea peoples" dialogue. His Athena being just a priestess who fell victim to the sack of Troy was very potent. And the whole motif of the Bronze age collapse ties in with the current political moment we are living in, I for one at least was reminded of roving gangs of ICE agents, how fascism spurns civilization, and I want to give Nolan props for his political streak in his recent movies. But I felt it all was undercut _by_ the spectacle, by Matt Damon going—what I dub—Malignant-mode on a room full of suitors. I never really connected with any of it. Maybe I am the wrong audience for this, I never pretended to care about the Odyssey or ancient mythology, but I can't help but ask myself if this is the best we can do with it. Isn't an adaptation like the Coen's _O Brother Where Art Thou?_—an adaptation where the directors never actually read the source material—a better exploration of the human condition?I initially dismissed Tenet as well, but it has grown on me since, perhaps this one will as well, who's to say.Seen in IMAX.
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Rated Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 6/10
I think I am too old to be put on the couch by the sixth movie in the Shrek franchise, sorry. How about the movies by Ernst Lubitsch? Is there any new Powell and Pressburger out? I need to catch up on my Fritz Langs.
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Rated Ballad of a Small Player 6/10
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