An English teacher once called me “one of life’s great wafflers” and she might’ve been onto something with that…
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Poor Things 2023
They say the more we learn, the less we know. A notion one can cling to just to stay afloat amidst a sea of troubles. The world begins as this wonderful playpen in which we stumble to a stand, toddle to a walk, and mumble in order to talk. When our appetite for adventure awakens, shelter can become a prison. Our faculties advance and we long for the wide blue yonder. Yet the expanse beyond home can be cruel and…
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Saltburn 2023
Saltburn sounds strange but it makes absolute sense. A flavour that sizzles. That’s how Emerald Fennel’s Ripley homage operates. It is seductive but ultimately acidic. It is as craven as it is cruel. We are struck by the aristocratic allure of it all. The enticing lust of luxury, and we are left with the catastrophic outcome of such uninhibited decadence.
Your tolerance for oblique excess shall be tested to its limits, but if you can endure frivolity at its finest,…
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Maestro 2023
Maestro’s greatest strength is that it is brilliant, but it’s fatal flaw is that it knows all too well that it is so. No more apt a word is there to describe this film than smug. It is high on its own supply. Bradley Cooper tallying 9 Oscar nominations to date charged towards the prospect of a Leonard Bernstein biopic knowing how irresistible it would to the Academy. He ticks every box, then draws a few new ones, and ticks…
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