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.
1. Check to see if your favourite film of last week has been posted already. If so, please reply to that comment instead of making a new thread.
2. Please post your favourite film of last week.
3. NO TV SHOWS! Discuss Legion somewhere else.
4. ALWAYS use spoiler tags. Report any comments that spoil recent / little-known films (e.g. Rogue One, La La Land, Split) without using the spoiler tag.
5. Comments that only contain the title of the film will be removed!
Here are some examples of good comments from last week's thread:
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This week I saw Manchester by the Sea. Manchester by the Sea was an incredible experience for me, as a kind of antithesis to La La Land (which I also loved, just to clarify). Casey Affleck is an actor with whom I am not too familiar, and this really helped cement his performance as Lee as something incredibly raw and believable, especially with regards to the central trauma he suffers which underlies the whole film. This trauma is not treated as a big, third-act reveal - it is revealed close to the middle of the movie - which I found to be exceptionally effective, not only in the matter-of-fact way in which it is revealed, but in also providing an incredible amount of empathy and understanding towards Lee for the rest of the film. Having not seen Affleck in too many other films, a kind of genuineness was brought to his character in ways which few other films have achieved for me. I love scripts with realistic dialogue and this film provided that on a huge scale, most notably between Lee and his nephew, who also gives a great performance as a character to whom I found myself relating quite a fair amount. Also, I'm a sucker for a Boston accent. I'm still thinking about this film. I think I might be for some time. I came out thinking 'boy, I don't want to see that again for a while', and the next day I thought the exact opposite. It's a beautiful powerhouse of a film and I can't wait to see it again.
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The Net (2016) - Kim Ki-duk. People should really give this a watch. It's about a North Korean fisherman who accidentally drifts across the border to South Korea when his boat engine breaks down. When he gets taken in by the authorities as a suspected spy, he suffers a Kafkaesque nightmare, where the only thing he wants is to return to his wife and young daughter. The film is as good as you'd expect from a filmmaker like Kim Ki-duk. Brutal, heartbreaking, infuriating, but ultimately very human. The performance by Ryoo Seung-Bum is absolutely brilliant, and you really feel for him during his awful predicament. It's also a brilliant satire, and a damning indictment of both South Korea's treatment of suspected spies, and of course the North Korean dictatorship. 8/10 in my book.
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Letter's From Iwo Jima - Probably one of the best anti war movies along with Paths of Glory. Shows just how badly propaganda skews our perception of the other side. The other side isn't human. The other side are untrained savages. The other side isn't as good as us. I loved how it showed the Japanese perspective on what they all knew was a doomed battle. There was no way they could win but they just accepted their fate ahead of time. And the story about the dog will always always stick in my head forever. It's just so brutally sad... And it's all done in Clint Eastwood's classic minimalistic style. My only flaw with it is it didn't show time passing well. They were actually stuck on Iwo Jima a very long time but it feels like it all takes place over a single night but it sometimes says months have passed. It would've felt more grueling if they showed time pass more smoothly. Honestly one of the best movies I've ever seen. It's just so effective and I honestly hate that quote people always say that it's impossible to make an anti war movie because filming war is intrinsically exciting which undermines the anti war message. Anyone who's said that hasn't seen Letters From Iwo Jima (or Paths of Glory). You feel so conflicted seeing "the good guys" being the enemy and the enemies coming are americans. Like honestly, I hate that quote cause it's so final in its wrongness. But yeah, I personally think this is Clint Eastwood's best masterpiece.
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