FromOdditytoDune, filmmakers flexed their storytelling muscles in creative ways.
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“The latest offeringfromRobert Zemeckisunfolds across vast spans of time but is confined to a single location.
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Often, shots of the same place at different times are projected side by side on-screen.
Nevertheless, the ending is certainly worthy of some props.
The pan continues until the house’s exterior can be seen.
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While not enough to salvage the movie, it’s a fitting conclusion and a neat visual trick.
“Cillian Murphydelivers yet another stirring performance inthis poignant dramaset in 1985.
He is Bill Furlong, a coal merchant who uncovers unsettling secrets within a local convent.
Based on the graphic novel by Richard McGuire, Here is an ambitious and innovative film that explores the lives of multiple families over generations, centered around a single location in New England. The film highlights themes of love, loss, and legacy as it spans centuries, capturing the essence of the human experience.
These were church-run institutions that took in supposedly “fallen” women and made them do unpaid labor.
Bill walks with Sarah through their small town, in full view of many people he knows.
It’s one of 2024’s most heartwarming movie moments, if still a bittersweet one.
The movie is mostly a slow burn until all hell breaks loose in the climax.
A live television broadcast in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation’s living rooms.
But after the conviction, prosecutor Faith Killebrew (Toni Colette) deduces the truth.
In one of the year’s hardest-hitting closing shots, she turns up at Justin’s front door.
“Sebastian Stanleads this one as Edward, a man with neurofibromatosis who undergoes facial reconstructive surgery.
Now looking handsome, he assumes a new identity and claims that the old Edward committed suicide.
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It’s a clever, fascinating, unpredictable film that avoids the expected narrative developments.
A man undergoes reconstructive surgery to escape his troubled past and takes on a new identity.
5’Anora' (2024)
Directed by Sean Baker
“Jealousy is a disease.
Remember that, Diamond.
Rather than being angry or sad, Patrick embraces Art, smiling, proud.
Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) has the unenviable task of managing the proceedings.
The plot is delectably juicy throughout, with continuous reversals and setbacks.
One candidate holds the cards, moments later they’re knocked out of the running.
This continues right up til the end, with the reluctant Lawrence finally accepting the possibility of being pope.
“I am what God made me,” he says.
“Oddityis a marvelous low-budget horror that does so much with its small cast and limited locations.
The whole movie is strong but the final shot is brilliant.
Uncovering the truth behind sister’s death with the help of wooden mannequin.
He’s utterly unrecognizable from the green kid the viewer meets at the start of the first movie.
In this regard, he’s frighteningly similar to his villainous grandfather, Baron Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgard).
No other film ending this year was quite so memorable.
Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family.
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A live television broadcast in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation’s living rooms.
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A family man serving as a juror in a high-profile murder trial faces a harrowing moral dilemma when he realizes he might be responsible for the victim’s death. As his internal struggle intensifies, he must decide whether to influence the jury’s verdict to save himself or seek justice for the accused.
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A man undergoes reconstructive surgery to escape his troubled past and takes on a new identity. As he becomes involved in a stage production inspired by his own life, he confronts his former self and grapples with the blurred lines between reality and performance.
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Anora follows a young sex worker from Brooklyn who impulsively marries the son of a Russian oligarch, igniting a potential fairy tale. Upon learning of the union, his influential parents travel to New York to annul the marriage, jeopardizing her unexpected chance at a new beginning.
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Follows three players who knew each other when they were teenagers as they compete in a tennis tournament to be the world-famous grand slam winner, and reignite old rivalries on and off the court.
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Following the unexpected death of the pope, Cardinal Lawrence (played by Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with overseeing the secretive conclave to elect the next pope. As the process unfolds, he uncovers a conspiracy that could shake the very foundations of the Catholic Church.
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Uncovering the truth behind sister’s death with the help of wooden mannequin.
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Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family.