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    dunkirk - pretty much the opposite of what i expected. i expected to be overwhelmed and engaged viscerally by nazis pounding the poop out of british soldiers, guts and limbs flying everywhere, screams of agony, bloodied ocean, panic, dread and hopelessness on a massive scale. but what it is, is an aesthetically pleasing, pg-13ed, detached, sterile and an elegant war portrayal for vimeo subscribers. it felt weirdly small scale, just a few rows of troops waiting to be evacuated on a desolate shore, 5-6 planes and a bunch of boats. at no point it felt like 400k people are involved in this thing. this idea to follow the proceedings at sea, land and air at different but converging timelines really didn't do anything to me, it was a pointless exercise that prevented from developing any of the three stories properly. for all its pretense to do something artful and original out of war film it snapped into hollywood cliches way too often. pointless and blatant exposition where people explain the things every mid schooler was taught about, hardy tom saving the day at the most crucial moment, all those last second rescues, a bomber diving into the oil spill for the big boom-boom. the attempts at artfulness and (overly forceful) understatement seem out of place when this stuff allowed to take place. some pretty shots, and again, a nice work from zimbler is all i took from it. i don't get what nolan intended with it, an anti-hollywood ode to the british war spirit, this reserved bravery and steadfastness or something? well it didn't work, fuck great britain.

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    i didn't quite get what logan lucky was supposed to be. an affectionate ode to the working class and downtrodden trump voters? but then those aren't the kind of people that would pull such a elaborate heist like clooney and co could. felt kinda at odds with itself. though it made me realize that vacuum/pneumatic machinery carries a lot of inherent comedic charge and is highly underused in film.

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    good time was thoroughly engaging and enjoyable. i always liked the idea of a film taking place in one night, it's a reliable way to get you to really understand and feel what the characters are undergoing, and this one capitalizes on this very well with pattison doing a really good job. the gaspar noe-ish neon shit with the really gritty and raw new york where every single person is physically repellent and fucked up in some way serves as a great aesthetic backbone, and our man lopatin in full zimbler mode is really taking it to another level.

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    most beautiful island - liked this a lot. it deals with this pretty worn out topic of immigrant money troubles in contemporary u.s, but takes  it into a very different and completely unpredictable place. it felt very polanski in how it followed a sole protagonist, and the gradual build up of mystery and suspense is something that you experience with her, not as some kind of distant observer. i always found this very engrossing in his films and this one emulates it very well. really liked the cinematography too and the general tightness of the script and the direction. there were a few obvious indie film student-like moves and somewhat excessive repetition of the same point in the first half, and some of the acting seemed quite amateurish in parts, but overall it was very gripping and the finale was very satisfying.

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