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21/20

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Broken by injustice and corruption, hippie idealist Otto descends into paranoia. He enlists the help of his friend Flay to carry out his bizarre revenge on the 1%, which he calls Madman’s Revenge.

40/33

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Four friends travel to idyllic French Polynesia in search of waves that no one has ever surfed before. They are taken to the island by ex-Armyman Sam. He warns them that he has been wiped off all maps and no one has returned. He soon learns why.

13/33

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Aitana returns home for Christmas, for the first time in three years, to find that her parents have replaced her with a stranger who is being treated as their daughter. He discovers a disturbing and bloody truth.

33/15

Maria Callas: Reserve me a table at a café where the waiters know who I am

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Maria Callas, the world’s greatest opera singer, lives out the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she comes to terms with her identity and her life. Angelina Jolie and director Pablo Larraín discuss how they connected with the heartbreaking true story of world-famous opera singer Maria Callas. The third and final film in Pablo Larraín’s so-called “Lady in High Heels” trilogy of female-led biographies, following Jackie (2016) and Spencer (2021).

I’m in the mood to be flattered

Mentioned in Close-Up: Why Do We Need the Venice Film Festival? (2024). I just saw the film at a film festival.

Our entire group was disappointed by what we saw

We found the plot very shallow, focusing on the latter part of her life, and important parts of the story about how events were connected were left out. We went from one scene to the next without a clear link between the sequences. The focus seemed to be on Jolie posing for us, somewhat removed from the charm of the real Maria.

There was a void in this version of Maria Callas

I get it: Angelina is beautiful, but where was the spark? I never felt like I connected with the characters and I didn’t feel a part of the film. At the end of the film, when the end credits begin, there are scenes of the real Maria Callas, full of personality and charisma, which was sadly not depicted in Jolie’s performance.

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Beautiful costume designs, but that was it for me. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is one of the biggest TV and streaming premieres this month.

46/39

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Ke Huy Quan stars as Marvin Gable, a real estate agent working in suburban Milwaukee, where ‘For Sale’ signs are blazing. Gable receives a scarlet envelope from Rose (Academy Award® winner Ariana DeBose; West Side Story, Argyle), a former partner in crime he left for dead. She is not happy. Now Marvin is thrust back into a world of ruthless killers, double-crosses and open houses turned into deadly war zones. With his brother Knuckles (Daniel Wu; Tomb Raider, Warcraft), a volatile crime lord, hunting him down, Marvin must confront choices that haunt him and a history he never buried.