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Saturday Morning on Sunday Street (with Gary Louris (Jayhawks) (Singer / Songwriter / Guitar)) by Gary Louris / Mark Olson

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EPA Visits Henry in His Semi-Detached Uncasville Garage One Sunny Saturday Afternoon by Honey Wagon

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The Alexander Medvedkin Reader

Alexander Medvedkin, Nikita Lary and Jay Leyda

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Filmmaker Alexander Medvedkin (1900 89), a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein and Alexander...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated S1m0ne (2002) in Movies

Sep 21, 2020

S1m0ne (2002)

2002 | Drama, Sci-Fi

5.0

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The trifecta of flatness: a comedy with next to no laughs, a satire with no bite, and a drama without sufficient emotion. Yet another technophobic dud that fires on zero cylinders and has nothing to say - try to picture if 𝘏𝘦𝘳 was one of the (many) shittier "Black Mirror" episodes. Besides Rachel Roberts' perfectly realized, fittingly mysterious performance (which, of course, is underused) nothing else shines through here - has zero depth beyond a few performative quips and has that rush-through-everything-of-any-importance pacing + structure that I detest. Here we have what could have been a poignantly interesting film about a disenchanted director whose only authentic relationship is with a synthetic A.I. as well as a boiling satire about the state of celebrity, the objectification of women in entertainment, technology, etc. But instead we're left with such a rote, surface-level, come-and-go boilerplate narrative about this thinly-written 'failed director' trope having to hide an obviously fake woman from every idiot on the planet. Skimps out on where it counts, the brief spoof arthouse movies in these are more intelligent and watchable than the actual movie - which ironically feels as insincere and fakey as its central character. Also I miss Jay Mohr.