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Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Spite Store (2020)
It's gold, Larry, gold!
The Spite Store had me in actual tears of laughter. Season ten was all in all absolutely brilliant. Refined, re-appearances from absolute favourites like Mocha Joe... sheer joy.
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
It's just beautiful
Tom Hanks has the best ability to bring emotion to a film and to make viewers feel moved. The film is just beautiful and touching. A very positive and healthy message and Hanks tells it lovingly.
A Rainy Day in New York (2019)
Sadly not great
Within 5 minutes the terrible and phoney performance of the young actors ruins a lot. The obvious acting and pretending is embarrassing to watch. It feels like a twelve year old tries very hard to be like Woody Allen but just doesn't because he can't. The dialogue just doesn't seem natural but played. The girlfriend is overacting to an extreme. He gets better as the film (it looks like video actually which is not a good look) progresses but never becomes really relaxed. The story is good but not great either, Law plays well, Schreiber too. Gomez is very natural and professional. Rebecca Hall should have been edited out after her horrible comments about the director.
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Elizabeth, Margaret and Larry (2020)
It isn't allowed to be this good
How can it be so fantastic?! It's getting better by the episode, when it already reached peak funny. Yet it continues to amaze and delight. My goodness, is there no end to funny and hilarious here? Larry is the best wine that miraculously turns into an even better wine without the Bordeaux faking. Tears of laughter, tears of joy! What comedy grandeur. One hasn't lived, if one hasn't seen this episode.
Hunters (2020)
Meschugge
The show is actually insulting to any viewer. Insulting to intellect and taste. One must wonder who the targeted audience for this are. What is the purpose and message of this shockingly primitive twaddle? Is this what entertainment has come to? Obviously Marvel morons will have the feeling of an in-depth historical education after watching it but for actual humans there is simply zero value in this embarrassing nonsense. It's not entertaining either. It doesn't appear to stand for anything. It manages to be utterly pointless in absolute every aspect.
Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
Magnificent Film, Brilliantly Shot
The pace and realism are what make this film outstanding. Natural dialogues, uninterrupted by needless and irritating music. Editing follows this pattern of calm. It's not slow by any means as the events aren't stretched out artificially. The captivating plot is supported by excellent acting of all the actors and not merely the main ones. It is rather enjoyable to have the screen time more equally split among the entire cast. The camera work is particularly powerful because it stays on the scene and avoids hectic and distracting movements. Sound becomes very impactful as there is hardly any music or score pestering the viewer and allowing to focus on the actual story. This film sets standards as to how good story telling can be.
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Happy New Year (2020)
The first episode is a miracle of genius
Everything from the first second on is the finest comedy imaginable. Anyone who thought that after season 9 it couldn't become better will be finding themselves in the wrong. My goodness, what a delight! Words can't describe how good it is.
24 Hour Party People (2002)
Coogan (mostly) always delivers
I have seen this many times now and always come away with a slightly melancholic sensation, because it so brilliantly displays a time when inventive and principled people act in the interest of something bigger than themselves. Coogan, as almost always, shines in this one. He always does, when he works with Winterbottom. This film actually carries and is carried by emotion and reality. It's historically valuable and honest.
Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019)
Oh dear
My goodness, this was terrible. One really has to be buying into the idea that because a director once did something interesting that everything that follows naturally must be brilliant, doesn't it? That's why delusional Hollywood marketing executives try to sell the "directed by Oscar winning x" director that never convinced any thinking person to be actually of value. What an exhausting task to perform to make it to the end of this irrelevant twaddle. The actors were never very talented when compared to real actual actors but this one takes the cake. 70s sitcoms had better pretension to offer. This delivers nothing but embarrassment. One feels ashamed for what goes on. And on it goes. The minutes just won't go by. And one wishes they would. This must be watched under the influence of many different drugs to not cause serious depression.
Truth Be Told (2019)
Starts of weak to weaken further
As if one wasn't tired enough of the same old Breaking Bad haircut and the never ending idea of a series. The lowest point came, when the religious comparisons started popping up. Tiring, needlessly counter metaphorical and insulting to the viewer. The main actress isn't actually bad, she seems rather clever for a while but like any and every American television show, it ends up to be exactly the same of the same. The same editing, the same storylines, the same dialogue and the same expected moments of one knows what's going to come. Like the last and terrible 15 years of repetition that's now sold under the disguise of the golden age of television, while it's actually streaming. The exactly same series can be seen under any random different label on Netflix, Prime or any other uncreative tech sponsored service. But of course it's an "original" because it hasn't been done before.