Reevaluated for: Stanley Kubrick – Ranked

How do I even express my iration for this film? Where do I begin? On this second viewing, one of many more I'm sure, I noticed more than the first time around. Most importantly, I now fully realised (and I have no idea how I missed so much of it the first time around) how much humour is infused in the story. The whole order of nobility is essentially ridiculed in Barry Lyndon. Both…

Mads Brügger drags you so far down this absolutely insane rabbit hole of grotesque cover-ups, ridicilous "maybes", and jaw-dropping statements that you're left gasping for air all the way through the last act. I went in knowing absolutely nothing and came out potentially knowing so fucking much, but that's also what's "wrong" with Brüggers latest film, the "potentially". In a case as complex and secrative as this one, finding clear and definitive answers can be impossible, and with a lot…

Effortlessly (and purposefully) avoids any discussion or condemnation of Israel's grotesque military policy and continous imperialist intensions, instead focusing on the (shockingly mild) mental struggles of those who to varying degree partook in the atrocities. I have a really hard time caring even one bit about the wartime struggles these soldier went through, even more so when it's all animated. For example, the daring escape from the tank had me thinking about anything other than the soldier on screen. This…

Disastrous, but of course an American production manage to turn the battle of Stalingrad into what is essentially an American hero story by subverting history and using its prominence as bait. You might be fooled into thinking this film is somehow taking a side, but that would only be the side of Hollywood. It's funny how Annaud place the audience in Soviet boots, because it is not because of any sympathy, iration or political alignment, it is simply because taking…