State-sponsored garbage. Propaganda with nothing to propagate. If cancer has taken over film as a medium, this is the master tumor. The problem isn’t superheroes or tired franchise graverobbing, it’s cynicism and the death of our national imagination. Julia Roberts was terrible.
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One 2023
Not bad, but a step below the last three MI movies. Didn't feel like it had the requisite show-stopping set piece. A few really wonky scenes and characters delivering exposition beat by beat as if reading from cue cards. And Tom Cruise is finally starting to look like a ghoul. Nothing to love here whatsoever, but not bad. The Marvel alien girl felt like she'd been created by a nine year old with bad parents.
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The Two Popes 2019
Fighting the urge to write a joke review, as this wound up being both moving and compelling in ways that ohhhhhhhh fuck 2 Popes 2 Furious, Look Who's Talking Too Popes, the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Popes, The Lord of the Rings: the Two Popes, Y Tu Popes Mama Tambien, Two Popes if by Sea, Two Popes and a Baby, Two Popes for the Money, Pope and Poperer: When Benedict Met Francis, Two and a Half Popes, Two Broke Popes,…