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The Tender Bar (2021)
I loved this film. Beautifully crafted.
Although a very different movie, my experience watching 'A Tender Bar' was very similar to 'Good Night and Good Luck' (2005).
The stories, screenplays, acting, cinematography, sound design, visual design, music, direction and editing - all so expertly produced and bound together.
These movies don't rely on the forced storytelling and predictable advertising- or marketing-type tropes that pass for way too much 'filmmaking' these days.
You don't have to tell your audience what to think if you let them feel.
The intimate journey we take with these characters is so well crafted, the connection lingers well after the credits finish. And watch the credits all the way to the end - just beautiful.
And yes, as someone else has said - the best I've seen Ben Affleck by a country mile.
Kidnapped (2021)
wow this is bad
Not the right kind of bad to be funny bad - just all the wrong kinds of bad. As one other review wrote - awful, awful, awful. Who on earth thought anything about this was a good idea? It may be a plot by a rival tourist destination to make Australia look like a limp, inept, stupid, cheesy backwater. In that case - success! I really take issue with the IMDB classification that this is "Drama/Thriller". It is neither. So bad.