Goldstone
To a certain extent, this is more of the same. Desolate setting, dodgy laid-back country folk who speak in single syllables, if at all.
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The Nice Guys
From a screenwriting standpoint, it’s excellent. No one gets structure and dialogue like Black, and the pacing is spot on.
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Zootopia
Prejudice – in all its forms – is the concept under the microscope here. And the screenplay to Zootopia is very, very good at examining said prejudice from every angle.
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The Hateful Eight
If you ever needed proof that I’m not that big a Tarantino fan, consider this: I only own one of his films, and it’s Death Proof.
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Mr. Holmes
Mr. Holmes is not a fun whodunit, nor is it action comedy, nor is it a study of an arrogant psychopath. Instead, it’s a sombre tale about a man coming to terms with his own mortality.
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The Keeper of Lost Causes
Noirish thrillers such as these require detectives who are arseholes to everyone within the film, but engender the sympathies of the audience, and Kaas doesn’t quite succeed in this department.
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Gone Girl
We feel for this man and the predicament he’s in, but we can’t shake the nagging suspicion that he’s lying to us.
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I Origins
Sometimes a romance, other times a work of science fiction or even a kind of medical thriller, the film is content to be a patchwork.
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Robotics;Notes Collection 1
There’s a lot to love about this show. It’s set in the near future, and features one of the most realistic depictions of barely-futuristic technology I’ve seen in a while.
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier
The film features half a dozen action scenes that are truly thrilling, and possibly the best of all the Marvel films so far. Some annoying shaky-cam rears its ugly head (really? I thought we were over this…) but despite this, I was never less than thrilled.
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