“I’ve only really liked a handful of people in my life, and you are two of them,” Hans Axgil (Matthias Schoenaerts)
Eddie Redmayne guns for his second Oscar in a row.
My review: http://www.filmaluation.com/the-danish-girl.html
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THE DANISH GIRL ★★★☆☆
“I’ve only really liked a handful of people in my life, and you are two of them,” Hans Axgil (Matthias Schoenaerts) Eddie Redmayne guns for his second Oscar in a row. My review: http://www.filmaluation.com/the-danish-girl.html THE WAVE ★☆☆☆☆ Every disaster movie cliché ticked off. Lacks budget, smarts and originality. BLACK MASS ★★☆☆☆ Director Scott Cooper has, over three films, created productive spaces for his cast, but ace performances tied to conventional storytelling. CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR ★★★☆☆ Apichatpong Weerasethakul's usual brand of patience-testing beauty; this time with added salacious japes. A PERFECT DAY ★★★☆☆ Falls between two stools. Doesn't have satire of M.A.S.H. or the specifics of WELCOME TO SARAJEVO. Starry cast elevate. Out to own today: The Reach a.k.a. Beyond the Reach
OUR LITTLE SISTER ★★★★★ Sensitive and loving. Kore-eda has made a live action Studio Ghibli moving. EVOLUTION ★★☆☆☆ Gloomily lit, arty body horror, which can't sustain feature length runtime. BONE TOMAHAWK ★★☆☆☆ B-movie conventional Western. Poor use of time. Sporadic ultra violence only highlights rest of blandness. NEON BULL ★★★★☆ Body fluids are not in short supply. Humorous, racy. Scenes end tantalisingly. SCHNEIDER VS BAX ★★★½☆ Dutch hitman comedy is absurd, surreal, occasionally laugh out loud, but botches ending. LOVE AND PEACE ★★★☆☆ Sion Sono goes from rap to rock, and makes a bonkers Christmas family movie. VERY BIG SHOT ★★★★☆ A Lebanon-set GET SHORTY, with an extra ladle of LIVING IN OBLIVION + social commentary. WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE ★★★½☆ An animated weepie. Studio Ghibli have gone Dickens for better and worse. Who hasn’t been waiting for a historical zombie film? SON OF SAUL ★★★★★ Utterly gripping. Exemplary filmmaking. Masterful use of depth of field and framing, allied to subject matter. RETRIBUTION ★★☆☆☆ Stylish, but soap operatic high concept thriller. Moral too heavy-handed, and the plotting creaked. THE PROGRAM ★★☆☆☆ Pedestrian. Leaden dialogue, and lacks insight. Contrast the compelling THE ARMSTRONG LIE. THE DAUGHTER ★★★★★ "One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off," Chekhov. Superbly calibrated drama. ASSASSINATION ★★★★☆ Seriously fun South Korean period action movie. Doesn't match THE GOOD THE BAD THE WEIRD, but then what does? Will HAIL, CAESAR! be in competition at the Berlin Film Festival 2016? TRUMBO ★★★★☆ Captures well the dilemma between personal ambition versus social conscience. Witty and moving, but direction flat. A BIGGER SPLASH ★★★★☆ As remakes go, different enough to justify existence. Swinton-Fiennes-Schoenaerts wow. Sexy. Funny. HIGH-RISE ★★★☆☆ Uneven anarchy. If Ben Wheatley was going for equivalent of SNOWPIERCER or A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, this falls far short. Every time I heard "the architect" I thought of THE MATRIX RELOADED. Another good-looking convoluted philosophical mess. LAND OF MINE ★★★★★ The war film equivalent of THE WAGES OF FEAR/SORCERER. Gut wrenching tension and moral ambiguity. |
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Filmaluation is dedicated to arts culture, with a particular focus on film. I care about intelligence, quality and entertainment. Need some movie and TV show recommendations? See the drop down to the right of the Home tab. Enjoy. The vital ambitions of art and entertainment: - Perceptiveness - Illumination - The unexpected - Innovation Brains and soul are key; but adrenaline junkies do not fret, there is also much love for an experience that delivers a sucker-punch to the guts via stunningly delivered thrills. Noun, “filmaluation”: The evaluation of a film Verb, "to filmaluate”: To evaluate a film I am well aware how difficult it is to make a film, put on a stage play, create a television show, write a novel, let alone make something of note. (That appreciation doesn’t stop me from having high standards though.) This online magazine is edited by Hemanth Kissoon. Filmaluation is owned by Filmaluation Limited (Company number 8549302. Registered in England and Wales) Archives
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