Wow, what a nothingburger of a musical biography! While the filmmakers' choice to not do a cradle-to-grave biopic — or even a full rise-to-stardom arc like Bohemian Rhapsody — is admirable in a genre space that largely always follows the same patterns, there's just nothing richer to experience here. So little insight about Marley personally *or* musically! I am not a fan on any level, but even I learned very little. Which would be fine if the film gave us…
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Freud's Last Session 2023
One of the awards season's inevitable misfires, Freud's Last Session gives one great actor and one very good actor iconic character names and little else. It's barely a stretch to say that one could have conceived of the screenplay with only the Wikipedia entries for Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis, the idea they could have met, and a modest imagination. It's that... well, obvious. I can't speak to the merits of co-adapter Mark St. Germain's source play, but one definitely…
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Compliance 2012
There are two reasons that Craig Zobel could have decided to make Compliance, both equally wrongheaded:
1) Zobel simply wanted to expose this case (and, by extension, the others like it) to the world, without any sort of greater message. While I don't buy this as the filmmaker's motivation for a second, some people have argued such, so I'll address it...
Put simply: text-based reporting, as had already been done extensively in this case (meaning, no further examination was really…
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The Frozen Ground 2013
Guys, you have to promise me that if I'm snatched up and murdered by a serial killer, you only allow David Fincher to turn it into a movie.