Tag: film review
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House of Gucci: Review
Following my positive (yet kind of lukewarm) response to The Last Duel, I was hoping that Ridley Scott’s second directorial venture this year, House of Gucci, would turn the tables a little and give me something to chew on. On paper, it’s a lot more up my alley than The Last Duel: a Lady Gaga-led…
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Spencer: Review
“They know everything.“ “They don’t.” Those were the last lines of the first trailer that was released for Spencer, Pablo Larrain’s latest quasi-biopic focusing on the intimate personal life of a famous woman, and they are quite good at setting the tone for how it unravels. As with his previous outing of this nature, 2016’s…
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Dear Evan Hansen (2021): Review
Note: There will be spoilers for the plot of the movie in this review. So if you haven’t seen it yet or don’t want to know anything about the plot, read no further. I’m going to go pretty heavily into things so just be careful! Dear Evan Hansen, today was going to be a good…
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Dune (2021) Review
Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel ‘Dune’ is largely considered unadaptable due to the complexities of both the world Herbert so delicately constructed and the equally complex story within its boundaries. An abundance of filmmakers have tried to tackle it, including the notorious 1984 film adaptation helmed by David Lynch, which was perhaps unfairly considered a failure…
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Mass (2021) Review
Slight spoilers ahead, but nothing you wouldn’t find on the film’s Wikipedia page. Mass is a 2021 film directed by Fran Kranz in his directorial debut, which he also wrote the original screenplay for. It stars Reed Birney, Ann Dowd, Jason Isaacs, and Martha Plimpton as two grieving families on opposite ends of a tragedy…
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Black Widow (2021): Movie Review
I suppose I’ll just address the elephant in the room first. Yeah, I’m posting again, you’re not hallucinating, I really have written a new post! It’s been a while and my 2021 track record is spotty at best and abysmal at worst, so I’m going to have a crack at getting back to form. Sorry…
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Promising Young Woman (2020) Review
Promising Young Woman is the directorial debut of actress and writer Emerald Fennell, who you may mostly know for spearheading the second season of BBC‘s hit show Killing Eve, or perhaps for playing Camilla in the latest offerings of The Crown. Either way, Fennell has fully established herself as a writer/director to watch out for…
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Happiest Season (2020): Review
As November falls away and the end of the year beckons, things are getting Christmassy here on When The Credits Roll. My first real ‘Christmas’ movie of the season and what a way to begin. Happiest Season was directed by Clea DuVall and co-written by DuVall and Mary Holland, who also stars in the film…
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I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020) Review
I’m Thinking of Ending Things is Charlie Kaufman’s highly-anticipated third directorial effort, following 2008’s existential nightmare Synecdoche, New York and 2015’s stop-motion psychology comedy Anomalisa. It follows a woman (Jessie Buckley) and her boyfriend (Jesse Plemons) who take a trip to visit his parents (David Thewlis & Toni Collette). It is based on the novel…
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Tenet (2020) Review
I want to preface this by explaining some important rules. Tenets, if you will. This is both a spoiler-free and spoiler-filled review. As signposted below, the first section will be a spoiler-free elucidation of my general thoughts and where it stands in Nolan’s filmography for me. Then, for those who have seen the film already,…
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