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Hoai-Tran Bui
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Finally here!!!! Inverse entertainment editor. Critic.
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · 4d
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN is pretty spectacular thanks to a star-making turn from Tonatiuh and director Bill Condon’s eye for the old-school Hollywood razzle dazzle. Very queer and very sincere! In theaters now! www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ Review: A Surreal Queer Romance Gets A Dose Of Hollywood Spectacle
Bill Condon’s crowd-pleasing adaptation of the stage musical streamlines Manuel Puig's surreal LGBTQ story.
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · 4d
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT: I chuckled at the WAITING FOR GODOT name-drop. A darkly comic morality play that balances on the razor's edge, while earnestly exploring cycles of violence done to us, and done to each other. So glad I got to see this with Panahi in attendance
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · 4d
I reviewed ROOFMAN, which I was very charmed by! Maybe Channing Tatum's best performance, while Derek Cianfrance is having a blast doing his best Soderbergh: www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
'Roofman' Smartly Breaks Out Of The "True Story” Movie Trap
Channing Tatum gives a terrific turn as the real-life serial robber whose amazing story served as the inspiration for Derek Cianfrance's wacky new crime comedy.
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · 6d
I reviewed A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, which I liked, even if it doesn't do much more than what's on the tin (make you very tense): www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
‘A House of Dynamite’ Review: Kathryn Bigelow’s Nuclear Apocalypse Thriller Will Shred Your Nerves
Kathryn Bigelow makes the nuclear apocalypse real in a nerve-wracking political thriller.
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · 7d
MARTY SUPREME: yeah Josh took all that wild Safdie energy with him. To call this a sports movie isn’t enough, this is a manic, madcap odyssey that is as exhilarating as it’s exhausting. Timothee’s star power is so bright & undeniable that it’s basically a supernova. LOVED it
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · 14d
SENTIMENTAL VALUE: floored by this one. Joachim Trier condenses generations of family pain into a lovely and bitterly funny ode to film and how art can connect us or drive us away. Renata and Stellan are sublime. I liked this even more than WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD!
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · 14d
DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE: saw this with a hardcore Springsteen fan and beforehand he worried this wouldn’t provide any new insights. Sadly, that’s very much the case. Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong are terrific but the film is a frustratingly literal kind of biopic
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · 19d
HOUSE OF DYNAMITE: Kathryn Bigelow crafts an exercise in relentless tension that’s more immersive than insightful. But goddamn does it set you on the edge. Rebecca Ferguson was the standout performance for me, really sells the stoic despair in the face of certain doom
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · 19d
BLUE MOON: Oh yeah, this is the kind of talky showmanship that I love from Linklater. A chamber piece with never an empty moment thanks to a tremendous Ethan Hawke, who walks the delicate line between buffoonish and tragic
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · 21d
SCARLET: I didn’t realize how much of this was going to be HAMLET. I’m trying not to judge too much by my love for his earlier works but Mamoru Hosoda is moving towards a kind of maximalism I just haven’t been vibing with. Lots of breathtaking moments tho
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · 21d
NOUVELLE VAGUE: I’m of two minds on this one! It only really came alive for me when Linklater was in his hangout movie bag, which bumped up against the fawning reverence he has for the era. Wish it was as a fraction as bold as the movies it was homaging
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · 21d
THE MASTERMIND: Josh O’Connor has never been more pathetic, or more magnetic, than in Kelly Reichardt’s lovely, subdued heist movie-turned-drifter odyssey. A throwback to meandering ‘70s neo-noirs in a really satisfying way
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · 26d
SIRAT: quite literally blown away by this one. A desert-set odyssey that unfolds into one of the tensest set pieces this year. Some real devastating turns. The collective stomach drop when my audience realized where it was going…
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · 26d
THE SECRET AGENT: Wagner Moura is terrific in an electrifying political thriller that defies its genre trappings. Much warmer and full of life than you might expect. Liked this one a lot!
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · 26d
LATE FAME: Too lightweight a New York art drama to give much thought to. Greta is fabulous and Willem never phones it in but, to borrow a term from Gen Zers, it’s just unserious
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · 26d
#NYFF thread here we go!
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · 26d
I had a big bold beautiful interview with Kogonada, and naturally we talked about Hayao Miyazaki movies www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
How Hayao Miyazaki Inspired The Most Surreal Time-Travel Movie Of The Year
The director of Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie-led fantasy film 'A Big Bold Beautiful Journey,' talks anime, Joe Hisaishi, and making Farrell dance.
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · 27d
I love movies!!
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · 27d
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is bracingly relevant, breathlessly propulsive, and fun as hell. Leo has never been better. Teyana Taylor is a force of nature. Chase Infiniti is a star! PTA has another masterpiece on his hand. Movie of the year!! www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
‘One Battle After Another’ Is An Action Blockbuster Like No Other
Leonardo DiCaprio has never been better than in Paul Thomas Anderson’s revolutionary thriller.
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · 28d
Multiple people have spoken to me about this, well consider it!
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · 28d
A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY feels like a live-action remake of an anime movie I haven't seen — and that's both good and bad. Visually stunning & swooningly romantic, but underbaked. But Kogonada is doing things he's never done before and I will ride for him www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
'A Big Bold Beautiful Journey' Wants To Make You Swoon
Kogonada takes a dip into magical realism with the sweetly sentimental fantasy led by Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie.
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · Sep 4
First Venice Film Festival done! I missed a few I wanted to see (ANN LEE, the new Bigelow, I will find you) but i’m so happy that I could check another bucket-list festival off my list!
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · Sep 4
DEAD MAN’S WIRE is a (ahem) blast. Gus Van Sant gets his mojo back in a zippy, lightweight ‘70s hostage thriller powered by a hilarious Bill Skarsgard. Good movie to end my first #Venezia on!
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · Sep 1
NO OTHER CHOICE: My favorite movie out of #Venezia82! A zany farce that asks “what if PARASITE for the upper middle class?” Park Chan-wook’s funniest movie in decades. One sequence had the audience hooting and hollering before applauding at the end www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
'No Other Choice' Is Nothing Short Of Spectacular
Park Chan-wook’s zany social thriller plays like a reverse 'Parasite' — and it's a hoot. Read our Venice Film Festival review of 'No Other Choice.'
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · Sep 1
THE SMASHING MACHINE is a frustratingly traditional sports biopic that I wish would’ve let itself breathe a little, though Benny Safdie shoots it with a real sense of craft. Still, The Rock gives a soulful, earnest performance (when it’s not hindered by the prosthetics)
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