Corbad

corbad
Cinema Addict - 1006 Film Ratings
Member Since: 03 Apr 2015
Location: Canada
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My "better than this one worse than this one" system doesn't always stand up to time and volume; trust the review, not the rating.

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75 66% The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) - Rated 18 Mar 2024
"The craft - particularly the cinematography - is terrific, but monotonous performance that initially unsettles ultimately distracts and lengthens, making this feel much longer than its two hours. Still, mostly effective and adroitly made, with affecting twists and turns."
80 79% Dune: Part Two (2024) - Rated 16 Mar 2024
"Once again, the spectacle is everything: awe-inspiring vistas and staggering design pairing with stirring music and cinematography. But here, Villeneuve at last dabbles in storytelling - cleverly making exterior the internal conflicts of the novel. But beneath the film's grandeur and large-stroke genius, there is too-little attention to detail, exemplified by the four different ways "Feyd-Rautha" is pronounced the first four times we hear it."
75 66% Priscilla (2023) - Rated 13 Mar 2024
"The story and its characters feel soft and distant. To its credit, nothing is ever sensationalized (its scenes of abuse are gently presented), but we are given hazy montage in place of introspection and unfocused time jump in place of character study. Necessary antidotal viewing for anyone who has consumed Elvis media, and occasionally a subtly profound film in its own right, it nevertheless comes across a bit pale."
65 42% 60 Minuten (2024) - Rated 10 Mar 2024
"It's straightforward and violent and stars a young, buff Robert De Niro with pleasantly nuanced screen presence - what's not to love? (I would also forgive my ex if he brought me a tiny kitten named Onion.)"
80 79% Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) - Rated 10 Mar 2024
"Gorgeous art on the breaking edge of 2D and 3D integration, when 3D was not a shortcut but an enhancement, and a soaring soundtrack and score overcome poorly written narration to center a simple and moving tale of friendship and anticolonialism. A uniquely beautiful experience."
65 42% The Beekeeper (2024) - Rated 08 Mar 2024
"The flaccid centrist twist at the end almost ruined everything - all the very silly, terrifically inconsistent, beautifully unimportant harmlessness of everything else. Luckily Jason Statham just exists here, uncaring, plodding through ludicrous dialogue and fun action choreo with admirable stolidity. What a hero. Very funny, very bad movie."
90 96% Perfect Days (2023) - Rated 22 Feb 2024
"Maybe it's a little too long, but really, its only misstep is my own: after the heart-wrenching days with the niece, I expected, wanted, needed a conventional conflict-resolution plot. But that's not what this film provides; instead, its message is driven home in its final moment, driving to work: these perfect days are anything but simple, but they are worth fighting for, fighting through, and fighting, in every small moment, to find."
90 96% Pride & Prejudice (2005) - Rated 16 Feb 2024
"Intricate direction and inspired performances make this film feel immersive and lived-in. The small, quiet details - a flexing hand, a silent look - are everything ... Until a liquid gold sunset, a foggy morning, a windy hill overwhelms you with beauty: the cinematography is incredible. The film nails the profoundly small and the stunningly expansive, and everything lives harmoniously rent-free in my head. I love, I love ... I love it."
80 79% Godzilla (1954) - Rated 10 Feb 2024
"The situation-hopping prologue isn't easy to follow, but it's shot with the same careful composition and is full of the same clever effects that elevate the human drama that compels for the rest of the runtime - and, of course, it was the first ever build up to the destructive, existentially terrifying reveal of Godzilla itself, and for that alone it's more than watchable. Excellently shot and scored, and Serizawa's conflict is a powerful driving force after the prologue."
75 66% Fallen Leaves (2023) - Rated 05 Feb 2024
"It's impossible to argue the glowing reviews saying, "It shows that even in the bleakness of our world, there is love and light," but the darkness and light of this film are within a mere few lumens of each other in delivery; the patient and gentle romance, in its deadpan subtlety, just failed to connect with me."