The narrative structure of Downsizing is baffling.
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Downsizing (2017)
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Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
Anatomy of a Fall’s script offers a rich landscape of ideas intelligently explored.
Something that sets Gangs of London apart as a TV production is the pedigree of the directors brought in to work on it.
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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
Killers of the Flower Moon is a Martin Scorsese film.
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Beau is Afraid (2023)
Ari Aster’s first two movies, Hereditary and Midsommar, didn’t set my world on fire, but are both solid bits of direction sabotaged in various degrees by uneven plots stretched thin.
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Nebraska (2013)
If you can get past the boredom, Nebraska will sneak up on you.
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The Descendants (2011)
In the seven years between Sideways and The Descendants, Alexander Payne hit the directorial equivalent of writers block.
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Sideways (2004)
Sideways offers a middle ground between Election and About Schmidt
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About Schmidt (2002)
Alexander Payne’s previous films, Election and Citizen Ruth, are biting satires that ruthlessly mocked their problematic characters.
After Apostle – an offbeat, ambitious stab at a folk horror movie from a writer-director working in his own country and language for the first time in over a decade – released on Netflix in 2018 to solid-but-not-stellar reception, it wasn’t at all clear what Gareth Evans would do next.