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10 Things I Hate About You 1999
mostly pretty wretched—a real early-career spec script that’s all sloppy story beats, thin characterization and self-satisfied one-liners, half of which land, half of which flop, and half of which have aged poorly; and direction that’s most successful at acceding to the DP’s request to use the crane—but they smashed the casting out of the park and really that’s what matters. The seniors, Stiles (17 at time of filming) and Ledger (19), are heatbreakingly young but also interestingly spiky, unaffected and grown-up,…
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The Comfort of Strangers 1990
as with all top-tier Schrader, if you told me this movie was directed by a virgin, i would believe you
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TÁR 2022
Art is real, and the enrichment it adds to people’s lives is as material as the harm done to people by abusers; these different types of material are difficult to weigh out fairly, and if you see people tweeting things like “Lydia Tár did nothing wrong!” it’s because Todd Field has created a safe space for us to mourn what gets lost in the triage when we (necessarily!) prioritize the untreated wounds of the directly harmed—a lament which runs against…
