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Hamilton (2020)
Go back to a music school
Hours of hip-rap-hop to wrap the most trivial lyrics summarizing a badly studied history, if this is patriotism I'm am afraid that Samuel Johnso was right.
Knives Out (2019)
Dejavu so many times
Full of topics, no rithm at all, poor Craig reduced to ridicule by name and accent, plot twisted and retwisted and reretwisted without a single thrill, it made me the same effect that a lie to Marta (disgusting idea, by the way).
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Puffing boredom
Since the very beginning, with the dartagnanesque whiskers of the improbable Poirot-Holmes, you understand that Branagh is going to serve you a bunch of topics interrupted by digital visions of a toy train crossing the heights of boredom. Many stars in the sky but no shining at all, it's just a Branagh show and it serves the audience right. Next, it seems, he will drown in the Nile.
The Light Between Oceans (2016)
Syrupy
Too many sunsets, too many dawns, too many minutes (30, at least, perhaps 40) make this film very cloying, sometimes almost unbearable. Pity. The story is not much but it has something, and with a soberer director... Really ridiculous at the end, when Tom says to Lucy: a pity you did not come before (when Isabel was still alive), and she just answers that she couldn't. What the hack was she doing, during 20 years?
Fortitude (2015)
Incredibly nonsensical
We watched the first part because it was so absurd to result fascinating, but the second has been really beyond any possibility of forgiveness: things happen just because, characters do not know what they want or even what they are, violent and gory just in order to carry on, and in the end you realize that there certainly be a third part. Beware of it!!!
True Detective (2014)
Much ado about almost nothing
Half of the dialogues is just f*** and s***, but in fact it is the only credible half. The rest is a nonsensical sort of dialogue where they say nothing but in a very pompous way. Plot rather confused but mainly confusing, and I am afraid that this is the aim. It's all and only atmosphere (it often works, fortunately), good acting but too acted (director's fault).
Scipione detto anche l'africano (1971)
A political film full of grace and irony
Such a courageous film, so full of history and culture but filtered through the irony of the centuries. The eternal ugly side of politics reflects itself on the mirror of the past, with the bitterness of Scipio, the cynicism of his brother Lucio, the moral (and physical) beauty of his wife Emilia (Silvana Mangano), the stern but utilitarian morality of Cato, the indifference of the Gods, while the roman ruins of the scenery, and the modern language (roman dialect in the original) of the characters (splendid all the actors),demonstrate that past is present. Forty years old, this movie keeps being a perfect metaphor not only of the actual Italian situation but of the human factors, tragedy and comedy together. For refined palates.
A Gunfight (1971)
Bygones
The old shooting times are over, the gunfighters are just a live legend - perhaps only a curiosity - for borrachos and mean people. Unable to fit into the new times, all they can do is killing each other, to feed their own legend or to be buried with it. In this complex, sober, highly undervalued movie, Douglas (the real one, not Michael) and Cash accomplish with their destiny, it does not matter who will be the winner, who will be the loser: both are doomed and they know it. But they are not the worst in town: this role is left to the bloodthirsty people who do not even have the guts to run personally the risk but enjoy the killing. Too late they realize what they have caused and supported, ant silence fall on them. But the'll forget, and next time it will happen again.