{"id":13347,"date":"2023-12-10T14:05:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T19:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13347"},"modified":"2023-12-10T14:05:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T19:05:58","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13347","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align:middle;\">For no particular reason, I wound up only watching a single movie last week\u2014in this case, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt12747748\/\">Leave the World Behind<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It feels very much of a piece with Sam Esmail&#8217;s television work, which works very much in favor of the paranoid thriller he&#8217;s crafting, but which did sometimes leave me scratching my head if all this style added up to anything. It probably is something of a spoiler to say that the movie does not resolve anything, which might be something of a weakness, but which also feels very much baked into it from the start.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not wholly satisfying, but it is <em>a lot<\/em>, often very tense, full of striking moments and really strong performances across the board.<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align:middle;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt12747748\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Leave the World Behind\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2222\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1-1-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1-1-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1-1-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1-1-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1-1-1383x2048.jpg 1383w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For no particular reason, I wound up only watching a single movie last week\u2014in this case, Leave the World Behind. It feels very much of a piece with Sam Esmail&#8217;s television work, which works very much in favor of the paranoid thriller he&#8217;s crafting, but which did sometimes leave me scratching my head if all &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13347\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13347"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13370,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13347\/revisions\/13370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}