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A worthy sequel which gives us the high the first part promised. Spectacularly shot, well acted, and incredibly written. Every scene is a payoff and not a single second is wasted as a filler. Denis uses the familiar troupes used in blockbusters and mixes it well with his own vision to deliver a product suitable for everyone.

When modern blockbusters are afraid to be serious and fill themselves with pop culture references, it is is refreshing to see filmmakers push new boundaries in filmmaking. For a story set in a dystopian time period, it used the contemporary politics and existing feudalism in our societies to give us a compelling tale of faith and disbelief.

15 minutes into the movie I was wondering what was the point of this movie? It is not even your regular wikipedia to screen Oscar bait biopic. It is bombarded with dialogue and most of them add nothing to do the plot (if there was one). The prosthetics and over acting performances from Bradley and Carey were so painful and cringe inducing to watch.

A movie with a stellar cast and technicians yet the output is something so painfully bad. Could someone tell Bradley he doesn't need to explain everything and can actually show us what's happening. The entire 120 minutes felt more like a podcast with annoying fake accents rather than a feature film.

Leonard Bernstein is regarded as a genius and one of the greatest composers to exist but this movie was nothing about it. It was a dull unemotional Marriage Story where people keep talking and talking about the most mundane aspects of life. The use of music is comically bad, for a movie about a composer, not a single piece of music sticks with you. Bradley uses the most original idea to drift between timelines - B&W for past and color for original (The creativity!).

Club this along with Theory of Everything, Eyes of Tammy Faye, Judy, Bohemian Rhapsody, The King's Speech, and The Darkest Hour in "Please Give me an Oscar, I am doing acting with 10 KGs of prosthetics on my face and faking a foreign accent" sub-genre.

Kitty Green follows up with a stunning thriller after the highly acclaimed debut The Assistant. The Royal Hotel's biggest strength is the way it conveys how power structures work under a male dominated society and the toxic drinking culture that has been normalized.

There are complains about how the characters don't change but that's precisely the essence of the film. There is no male savoir or a white knight in shining armor to save the day. The final shot was symbolically justified but felt a little over the top and cliched.

Jessica Henwick and Julia Garner are very natural in their roles. Not for once do they give more than what's required for their roles.