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Maestro & The Iron Claw

I present to you, the last reviews of the year. Ironically, these are both biopics. Though one is a sports bio while the other is a musical one. Maestro was released to Netflix about a week ago, and it chronicles the life of American composer Leonard Bernstein. The Iron Claw on the other hand I saw yesterday, and the wrestling bio centers on Kevin Von Erich and his EXTREMELY unlucky family.



Maestro 


I'll admit, the movie did at times get a little bit boring. However, it made up for it with it's fantastic performances, beautiful cinematography, and and it's gorgeous music (of course provided by the deceased Bernstein). Bradley Cooper (who also served as the film's director) was great as pretty much always. Carey Mulligan was also good, though I never particularly cared for her.   



The Iron Claw


The Iron Claw was FANTASTIC, and very very sad. I like how it starts off as a very warm existence within the family and wrestling was something that bonded them (the brothers especially) together. But as we got deeper into the movie, we lose more and more members and everything becomes incredibly bleak. That was very well paced and very well balanced. While the performances in Maestro were stronger, the acting in this was pretty good as well. Well done to Zac, I was very impressed with him. I will also call out Jeremy Allen White, whom in my opinion was the best out of everyone


With these reviews over and done, I can now rank every movie I've seen this year. I won't say the list will come out soon though. Expect it at least some time next month. Thanks for reading.




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