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1/16/2024

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

De Niro is very very good here. And Gladstone, though she's not given nearly enough to do, holds the screen every time she's on it. And... dammit. I'm all out of compliments.

This movie is a mess. At least half a dozen times Gary and I had to sanity-check stuff that just popped up out of seemingly nowhere. Things like "whose kids are those?" and "have several years passed without any indication? I thought it'd just been a couple of months." Yes, this is an important subject, but that does not automatically confer importance to art based on that subject. I got way more out of my wikipedia dive after the movie than I got from this.

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