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NAPOLEON
NAPOLEON ( 2023) is a multitude of dots that do not connect. A product of Ridley Scott’s sometime ago well respected on-schedule-within-the- budget Movie Manager’s sharp and now disintegrating mind, the one that never – even in its youth – possessed brilliance of thought or vision, but at some point, back in the late ’70s…
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POOR THINGS
POOR THING (2023) by Yórgos Lánthimos is an oversaturated visual feast of a silly propaganda movie by a thinking director from Europe, in which he manages to strip naked the prudish Emma Stone, strip Willem Defoe of his life-long shoot-me-in-the-face over-the-top mannerisms, and strip search and finally find a semblance of an actor in Mark Ruffalo.
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MAESTRO
Bradley Cooper’s MAESTRO (2023) – or what should’ve been called “The Battle of Narcissists” – offers little Vision, no Thought, no Un Certain Regard, and undisciplined, slapdash effort of a script comprised of a randomly placed sprinkle of narrative dots connecting into a sophomore big-scale narcissistic vehicle for its chief conductor. — Beautifully shot Old…
Le Départ de la Train 