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The way this works is that you post a review of the best film you saw last week. It doesn't have to be a new release, just any film you have seen over the last seven days that you feel is worth talking about. Here are some rules.
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Here are a few great comments from last week's thread:
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Absolutely fell in love with Nocturnal Animals this week. This felt like such a personal movie to me, that it's a bit difficult to explain just how much I enjoyed it. The story of Edward and Susan is such a heightened, but real story that I think many people can relate to on multiple different levels. And it's told in an audacious way which I particularly love in movies. The whole cast is wonderful, and it really is just a year for Amy Adams to stand up and tell us just how great she is. It's obviously a beautiful movie on the surface, but I do take issue with people who call it hollow or style over substance. The hollowness is there, but it's a trait not a lack of one. And style is substance. Tom Ford is one of the best directors working today, and I cannot wait to see more and more from him as he goes down this path.
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Just saw The Wrestler yesterday evening. First off, what an incredible performance by Mickey Rourke, this alone should be reason enough for you to see it. He's so believable as The Ram, in everything from his bulky and broken physique, to his fight choreography, to the way he imbues what could be a pathetic caricature with a quiet dignity and humanity. As I read in some review somewhere (wish I could remember it), he manages to make the pathetic seem heroic. There's so much else to talk about (the realism, the gut punch of an ending, Marisa Tomei's performance) that this could probably turn into an essay. I won't say it's a perfect movie, I think it's often too unsubtle about it's themes (Talking about the real world: "Out there, I'm a piece of shit") and the scene where he reconnects with his daughter, while beautiful and perfectly acted, lays it on a little thick when they dance in an abandoned building. But those are tiny theoretical flaws, I still loved both those scenes. Go watch it!
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The Witness (2016) - Had this in documentary in my netflix queue for a while, but kept passing it up because it looked like yet another documentary in the pile. I was blown away by this one, definitely one of the best of the year that hasn't been talked about quite as much. The film follows Bill Genovese as he tries to get to the truth behind his big sister Kitty Genovese's murder. Everyone knows her name as "the lady in New York who was stabbed to death while nobody called the police". Entire sociology books have been written around the accepted premise of her murder. But we find out that may not be the case. What's great about this movie is how artfully and elegantly it deals with the subject. On the surface it's a mystery, with Bill tracking down witnesses and reporters and cops and piecing together this story. But on another level it's a meditation on grief, memories, and the media. Some of the things Bill does in this movie to deal with his sister's death are downright weird and unrelatable, and even his own family members question his process at points, but that only adds to the depth of the movie as Bill's grieving and his own incredible life story become part of the film just as much as Kitty's death. The recreations are done in a really cool sketch-pencil type of animation style, and the diversions into Kitty's life in NYC are such a slice of life of the time she lived. Check this out while it's on Netflix. It deserves way more attention.
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Submitted December 19, 2016 at 12:59AM by GetFreeCash http://ift.tt/2gPrvZy
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