After reading this I will probably see Anora; will skip the other.
Posted on 01/31/2025 2:11:39 PM PST by Rummyfan
The best and worst movies of 2024
The Oscar race is, it seems, coming down to a contest between what is unquestionably the worst movie of 2024—Emilia Perez—and what might be the best movie of 2024. That would be Anora, an uncategorizable and unclassifiable story of a lost soul, a 23-year-old stripper in Brooklyn who also trades sexual favors for money. She hits the financial and emotional jackpot when the son of a Russian oligarch falls for her.
So it’s a love story, albeit an entirely transactional one—beautifully and precisely observed and unsentimental by its writer-director, Sean Baker. He neither condescends to his intellectually compromised characters nor excuses them their profound personal and moral failings. But those failings come into play when, all of a sudden, the fairy-tale romance goes off the rails. At this point we’re about 20 minutes in, and bam—Anora takes off like a rocket. With no warning that it’s coming, Baker delivers a second act that proves to be the best screwball comedy made in America since Arthur more than 40 years ago.
Anora becomes screamingly, laugh-out-loud funny in ways that are entirely unexpected, and builds and builds in ways you cannot possibly anticipate and I will not try to describe. Nor should you ask anyone or look for information on it; it’s really best if you go see this thing without knowing much, though I feel obliged to warn you that Anora is another one of the many 2024 movies that features a significant amount of nudity and pretty explicit sex. (I was going to say keep it away from your kids, but I was a kid in the 1970s and practically every movie of significance costarred breasts and foul language, and I guess I made it through all right.)
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After reading this I will probably see Anora; will skip the other.
Read the whole thing!
They both sound absolutely cheapened and awful, will not see. I accidentally agreed to see Brutalist over the holidays, which was awful also.
But what I am planning to see by choice is “Last Showgirl” starring Pamela Anderson.
I didn’t mind “Maria” starring Angelina Jolie either, but was slow.
Amazingly enough Anora came to our town. Because of having to get things done before we traveled to my in law’s in MA; I never made it. I really want to see this.
Definitely want to see it too!
I’m thinking if you want to see a record breaking movie, see Snow White. It has a million dislikes on the YT trailer! Watch The Critical Drinkers review of it for more info.
I don’t recall a situation where something like “Emilia Perez”, a film that is largely disliked by both audiences and critics leads the pack in Oscar nominations. There have been non-mainstream films that did well at the Oscars but they were at least well reviewed. Nobody seems like this film other than the industry itself.
It’s only meant as an “In Your Face” to us “evil” Trump voters.
Drinker was extra savage on that one.
It has a million dislikes on the YT trailer!
I thought YT no longer tells you how many dislikes a video gets.
Hard pass on both.
Only movie coming up I want to see is the movie about the trial of Vidkun Quisling, because it’s from the same director as “The King’s Choice”, an excellent movie about King Haakon during the Nazi invasion of Norway.
I have no use for anything Hollywood spews out anymore.
Keeping the tradition of suck ass movies nominated for best picture alive.
I couldn’t even name any of the recent winners.
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He had it listed in his podcast. I’m thinking there is a way to unmask it but I don’t know how.
I love the Drinker.
Check out Nerdrotic’s review of Emilia Perez on youtube...its hilarious.
Perez is a musical, too. How can it miss?/s
A movie about a whore and a movie about a whore. Gee. Whats not to love. 🤢🤮
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