I saw Will Sloan call this an absurd vanity project, and I can’t put it better than that. Tom Cruise does his best to still look like he’s 35, portraying an infallible titan of the skies and the dating field. Even when forced off a flying project and shoehorned into becoming an instructor, he still gets the last laugh flying a jet at Mach 10 or he’s the only pilot who can complete the super difficult mission. It’s a better…
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The Fabelmans 2022
Spielberg needed to work some things out, evidently. As he himself jokingly described it, it’s a $40 million therapy. And if it’s to be taken as a direct adaptation of his own life experiences, it comes across as a little self aggrandizing. He’s virtually a filmmaking prodigy from the word go and the plot progresses with little growth to his avatar character. The whole thing is soaked in nostalgia, and it admirably doesn’t shy away from the dark moments.
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Sharper 2023
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Women of Focus: Actresses Briana Middleton & Julianne Moore, Cinematographer Charlotte Bruus Christensen“Sharper” is about con men and women, and metatextually is about conning its audience as well. It starts out as one kind of movie, then shifts dramatically about twenty minutes in, and keeps developing its twists with a distinct glee. It opens up unfavorable questions about the logic in the beginning of the story, and its most sympathetic character is both underwritten and too…
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Kuch Kuch Hota Hai 1998
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Women of Focus: Actresses Kajol, Rani Mukerji, Farida Jalal,Himani Shivpuri, Sana SaeedFeaturing the same two stars as “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge” and a similar plot of them eventually finding love together. This feels like a spiritual remake, but everything is lesser. The story is more contrived, the pacing is more languid, and the songs aren’t as catchy. Still energetic, airy romantic Bollywood fun, but for the love of Shiva this did not need to be…
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991
The original is a fine, humble science fiction film, made at the beginning of James Cameron’s career. By the time of this one, he had gained a high reputation and therefore high budget to craft a sequel. But in a great reversal of expectations, this improves on everything done in the original, upping the action well, the stakes, the menace and threat of the evil terminator, and adding a great new character in the young John Connor.
