guyeverton
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| 50 10% | Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
"Just the latest take on the ;traditional parent beefs with modern child' trope. It's a theme that becomes clear early in the movie, and I expect the conflict will be resolved in the usual way: the characters reconciling their differences after realising what's really important. 2 hours of breathless but excruciatingly repetetive kung fu-fuelled set pieces pass by, washed with copious CGI, some fabulous costumes, and the occasional pythonesque gag. The predicted ending comes and I rejoice."
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| 30 4% | Greener Grass (2019)
"There are two ways to present surreal and zany humour - one way is to be hyper theatrical, a la Matt Berry or Noel Fielding, which welcomes the viewer in on the joke; the other is to play it deadpan. Greener Grass tries this latter route, but the actors ham it up so much that every gag disintegrates into a parody of deadpan and falls flat. A painful watch."
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| 59 15% | MASH (1970)
"You see Altman and a Palme d'Or and you go in thinking you'll see a cracker... and what follows is an arcless blur of mostly peurile hijinks, what would happen if you put Steve Stiffler and Jonny Knoxville amidst the gritty gore of war. I did laugh a few times, especially at the tannoy. But while this movie may have been important and groundbreaking in 1970, it's aged as well as a lettuce and pales in comparison to Sutherland's other war film from 1970, Kelly's Heroes."
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| 70 28% | Dinner in America (2020) |
| 80 57% | The Holdovers (2023) |
| 63 18% | Anthropoid (2016)
"The second half, beginning with the assassination attempt, is excellent - brutal, tragic, tense - and largely faithful to the historical record. What a shame that the drama and tension here is precisely because this is a true story, and not because of any outstanding filmcraft. Sadly the first half did little to establish the characters, heavily focusing on Gabcik & Kubis though we learn little about them; Murphy does a lot better with his meagre offerings than dull Dornan."
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| 74 36% | Palm Springs (2020)
"Smart, interesting and funny, a great first hour of a movie before deteriorating into typical romcom tropes."
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| 51 11% | The Menu (2022)
"Just silly. Not especially funny, not scary, and given that ATJ's character never felt in any real jeopardy, not particularly suspenseful or thrilling either. So a satire? Oh wow the rich are pretentious assholes. Acting and cinematography lifts it but ultimately more clever clever vacuous Hollywood by numbers."
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| 77 45% | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
"The singing was repetitive and mostly irritating; the 60s horn section cool, swinging and redemptive. The colours, unbelievable, a clear highlight. The plot, much better once Guy comes back on the scene... and an ending for the wise if not for the incurable romantics."
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