Jude’s inability to commit fully to any political or cultural perspective proves frustrating.
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Chuck Russell is certainly committed to making an old-school, effects-laden genre thrill ride.
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Behind the violence and gore, Nobody 2 only offers the skeleton of a narrative.
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The film’s tableaux are impressionistic in ways that recall Claude Monet’s plein air landscapes.
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The film is a ghostly travelogue through a land ravaged by war and natural disaster.
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The more the film diverges from Kurosawa’s, the more confident and distinguished it becomes.
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The film is perhaps Joachim Trier’s most mature and emotionally complex work to date.
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The film recalls the themes of Rebecca and the temporal displacements of Alain Resnais’s work.
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The overriding suspense here is largely created by watching truth become negotiable.
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The film is mostly memorable for its depiction of a city gradually hollowing itself out.
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