Tag: 3.5/4
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Conclave (2024)
I just saw Conclave and it was great. Based on a novel by Robert Harris, it deals with the sequestering period in the Catholic Church when a pope dies and the cardinals must elect their successor. Ralph Fiennes plays the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Thomas Lawrence, a stoic and serious man caught up…
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Megalopolis (2024)
I just saw Megalopolis and although it’s not cool to say so, I enjoyed it. It’s an eccentric satirical and symbolic piece filled with characters with names like Wow Platinum (Aubrey Plaza), and inspired by the Catilinarian conspiracy of Ancient Rome. Set in the city of New Rome (New York in our world, retaining the…
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American Fiction (2023)
I recently saw American Fiction and it was good. The directorial debut of Cord Jefferson, it stars Jeffrey Wright as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, a literature PhD and novelist whose upper-middle-class Black experience is a hard sell for publishers looking to flog books. With his widowed mother’s medical bills to pay, however, he decides to turn…
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The Boy and the Heron (2024)
I just saw The Boy and the Heron and it was great. A fantasy drama out of Japan, it’s set mostly around the bombing of Tokyo during the 1940s and follows a young man whose mother dies and whose father then takes him to the countryside to set up home with a new wife. But…
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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
I just saw Killers of the Flower Moon and it was really good. I was trepidatious about seeing it because it’s three and a half hours long, but having booked myself a seat with a lot of legroom and popped out for a comfort break midway through, I didn’t feel the length at all. (Sidenote:…
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