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Gawain's quest, on its surface, is simply A-to-Z the young knight, eager to earn his place among the legends around him, beheads the monstrous Green Knight and must seek him out one year later to get an equal whacking in return.

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It's a movie you kind of just let wash over you, especially because Lowery isn't interested in easy answers as to what the hell is actually happening at any given moment. Visually, it's one of those aesthetic wonders in which every frame should be hung in a gallery, Lowery and DP Andrew Droz Palermo dragging Patel's Sir Gawain through lush, endless greenery, dark fairy tale forests, and watercolors-come-to-life fantasy lands populated by tragic kings and wayward giants alike. But David Lowery's film is that, and so much more. There is rarely a second in The Green Knight in which Dev Patel is not soaking wet for one reason or another, a fact that would probably catapult this movie into my Top 10 even if it wasn't a deeply gorgeous medieval head-trip. The idea that Hall should be the lead of more movies isn't new, but The Night House solidifies it as objective fact. Hall is truly breathtaking as Beth, stripping away all pretensions and playing the part as a raw nerve. You're safe now.' From there, the film finds its horror in Beth's struggle with the unanswerable questions that follow a monumental loss there is, of course, an actual supernatural presence at play here, but it works as a stand-in for the tremendous, horrifying nothingness familiar to anyone who has struggled-or continues to struggle-with intrusive thoughts about what comes after all of this. (There's a jump scare in here that took years off my life.) Rebecca Hall puts on the definition of a powerhouse performance as a teacher named Beth whose husband ( Evan Jonigkeit) recently committed suicide, leaving behind only a cryptic message: 'You were right. What matters is this film, directed by David Bruckner, is a staggering treatise on grief and mental illness that also happens to be a damn scary psychological horror movie. Sure, The Night House technically had its festival debut back in 2020, but here's the thing: I don't care. It is, in all ways, sheer chaos, in the same way that a Tom Ford original might look like an unwearable mess on the rack, but on the right model coming down the catwalk, it fits like a glove.

Al Pacino seems to be visibly trying to give himself a heart attack while Jeremy Irons aims more for 'if someone's ascot collection came to life.' Jared Leto, in a performance that lives outside the boundaries of 'good' and 'bad,' buries himself in prosthetics and proceeds to show the world what it'd be like if the Joker was played by a malfunctioning Super Mario Bros. (Did Ridley Scott tell every one of these performers they were in a different movie? Impossible to say, but the evidence certainly suggests it.) In the lead, Gaga is part Disney villain, part Dracula bride, her laser-eyes focused on that Oscar in all the most committed ways possible.

House of Gucci has all that in spades, as every cast member is pitched to 1,0000, but in their own, unique direction.

The story of the Gucci fashion empire-primarily how Patrizia Reggiani ( Lady Gaga) joined it, self-imploded, and then hired an assassin to murder her husband, Maurizio Gucci ( Adam Driver)-is a sordid one, and any movie hoping to capture it should be composed of equal parts cheese, excess, and melodrama.

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House of Gucci is a five-course meal of controlled mess orchestrated by the legend Ridley Scott in full no-fucks-given mode.

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