The Holdovers (2023) Paynless and Underwhelming.
“The Holdovers” is such a jumble of feel-good cliches that it doesn’t have a genuine bone in its body. As for the ending, it negates everything that went before it.
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Month: October 2023
Scorsese Scores Again With Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
Scorsese directs all of these multiple storylines with great flair. from the broad vistas to the most minute period detail in costume and production design.
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Anatomy of a Fall (2023) and a Spellbinding Sandra Hüller .
The film boasts in German actress Sandra Huller’s prime suspect, one of the cinema’s great performances.
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Godland (2023) Hlynur Pálmason’s Masterpiece
Pálmason, his cinematographer (Maria von Hausswolff), and his composer (Alex Zhang Hungtai), bring back colonial memories of such movies as “Black Robe”.
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“Priscilla” (2023) is “Marie Antoinette” Remade by a Lesser Director.
The only part of the movie that works – and gives you a look at what the movie could have been – are the opening scenes on the United States Army Base in Germany.
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