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Saturday, 26 August 2023

The House That Jack Built (2018)


Grisly murder is not the spectacle it used to be and no matter how hard tryhard provocateur Lars von Trier tries to match, say, Twitter/X in its ability to parcel out sudden, unexpected visual depravity, injecting increasingly shocking crime into his rehash of Nymph()mania (that's what this simply is, a third chapter, like the director is stuck on an idea, with Charlotte Gainsborough's Joe replaced by Matt Dillon's Jack, and her sex swapped with his serial murder; the languorous voiceover remains), the net effect of this heavy-handed and really quite silly movie is inanity.

★★☆☆☆

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Saturday, 19 August 2017

To Die For (1995)


Gus Van Sant's crime drama parody received critical acclaim despite its being little more than a glorified episode of a real-life tv crime drama like 48 Hours, only with A-list stars Nicole Kidman and Joaquin Phoenix alternately hamming things up and expecting us to care less about a grubby, inconsequential suburban crime story, Clueless meets Amy Fisher and Note On A Scandal.

★★★☆☆

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