Maestro

This movie is not real. It exists only as a selfish desire to be award bait from all involved. It's not the first one and not the last one. But it feels so devoid of realness that it hurts. It is also a contradiction because the actors are very capable of bringing a kind of realness that is necessary for bringing the characters to life but the realness is so painfully manufactured and not natural...it doesn't have that cinema magic, it's all in the eyes. They were patting themselves on the back after every scene: "My, my, this is so "insert generic award here" worthy." I'm talking here about the technical aspects as well. The black and white left me cold.

It's not a bad movie in any sense. I just wanted to be fooled more and not be so paperthin and melodramatic.