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2025

★★ 2

Exhausting and ridiculous. I’d read a few reviews slamming the first hour, but I kept thinking, how fucking long is this first hour supposed to be? The biplane sequence is terrific, but until then it’s a slog. There’s a whole lot of messiah posturing, but the only figure I saw soaring into the heavens was Icarus. Cruise and McQuarrie have pulled off miracles before fixing other entries like Rogue Nation and Fallout (not to mention Top Gun: Maverick, for that matter) in post and reshoots, but this time, their hubris beat them to it.

PS. Kittridge uses “whomever” incorrectly.

1929

★★★★★ Watched 18 May 2025

Automatic five stars for the experience of seeing it on 35mm. Bit of a portrait of the artist as a young man situation going on here, literally so in that one famous scene, with a ton of future formal and thematic elements freely (albeit a tad creakily) strewn about. Quite “modern,” too, in its sensibilities towards women’s liberation (and also “post-modern,” I guess, in that one joke about the policier “probably getting all the details wrong”). John Longden looks like Pete Serafinowicz.

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2023

★½ 35

An exercise in corporate cynicism masquerading as hip transgression.

2023

★½ 2

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