doyler29

doyler29
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70 42% White Material (2009) - Rated 18 Mar 2024
"I like this film quite a bit as a character study, but I don't think I like it as much as many folks seem to. I don't think I see the politics of this film as being quite so straightforward. I see Huppert ... who is magnificent in this film ... refusing to leave what she sees as the only home she has. I don't know that I buy it as her "ignoring" the danger so much as not caring about the danger since she sees no other option."
80 68% The Edge of Seventeen (2016) - Rated 18 Mar 2024
"No white winged doves. What a rip-off. Seriously though, I could watch hours of Hailee Steinfeld and Woody Harrelson shooting the shit. Kind of loved this ... best joke about spraying perfume on a freshly shaved crotch!"
40 7% The Ninth Configuration (1980) - Rated 18 Mar 2024
"I don't really see what people see in this film. It's a bit of lightweight silliness about the problem of evil buried under far too much footage of talented actors being crazy. There's less than an hour of good material buried in this two hour film. Even the bit where the ridiculous biker gang torture Stacy Keach goes on for three to four times longer than it should."
80 68% R.M.N (2022) - Rated 18 Mar 2024
"Based on real incidents that happened in the Romanian village of Ditrău in 2020, Mungiu paints a really ugly picture of the xenophobic reaction to having three foreign workers in their town, but he also is pretty careful to portray just how complex the cultural and economic circumstances are. It's a sobering film that resonates with events all over the world, not just Romania."
60 23% L'assassino ha riservato nove poltrone (1974) - Rated 15 Mar 2024
"The setup for this Agatha-Christie-meets-giallo flick is okay, but it largely descends into unlikeable characters splitting up for no reason and wandering around alone tedium. The tedium is intermittently interrupted by some creative deaths and a surprising amount of bare boobs. One you understand the setup, you can correctly predict the way this ends."
70 42% Tootsie (1982) - Rated 15 Mar 2024
"The film is totally obsessed with his pretty creepy obsession with Jessica Lange. It's not even that I think you couldn't have had this angle in the movie, but as it actually plays out, boy gets girl without ever really having to reckon with how terrible some of his choices were. I really wanted to know how Geena Davis felt about him having been a man all along."
80 68% Revanche (2008) - Rated 13 Mar 2024
"One of the greatest joys this film has to offer is it's ability to completely thwart your expectations. The title and set up lead you to expect a violent crime thriller, but you get a tense character drama where none of the characters completely understand the situation. It leads to a wonderful conclusion where one character finally does. The title means "revenge", but the films more about guilt and how a series of bad choices threaten to escalate to even worse ones."
80 68% Dune: Part Two (2024) - Rated 13 Mar 2024
"I think a huge part of the muted response I have to this mirrors my response to the "Lord of the Rings" films. I'm far less impressed by grandeur when it comes out of a computer. Watching huge battles made up out of sprites just does not impress me. I want to see "Ran", but I'm being shown cartoons."
100 96% Days of Heaven (1978) - Rated 12 Mar 2024
"I think this is one of the clearest cases of how sometimes seemingly unreasonable attention to detail pays off. This is a film almost entirely shot in the 25 minutes between daylight and twilight, and you'd never consider doing it another way after seeing it. Ennio Morricone's score is beautiful."
70 42% Commando (1985) - Rated 11 Mar 2024
"Wells is the secret weapon of this film. He understands EXACTLY what film he's in, and decked out in a weird chainmail vest and a Freddie Mercury moustache he soars way past the top ... achieving serious overacting greatness. He's the kind of villain who is literally executed during the final fight, but it only makes him more angry."