costume dramas Archives - Alternate Ending https://www.alternateending.com/category/costume-dramas Discovering good movies, one bad movie at a time Sun, 28 Apr 2024 04:44:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.alternateending.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/favicon.png costume dramas Archives - Alternate Ending https://www.alternateending.com/category/costume-dramas 32 32 125815950 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) https://www.alternateending.com/2024/04/perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer-2006.html https://www.alternateending.com/2024/04/perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer-2006.html#respond Sun, 28 Apr 2024 04:43:32 +0000 https://www.alternateending.com/?p=124699

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A review requested by James, with thanks to supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon. Perfume: The St...

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]]> https://www.alternateending.com/2024/04/perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer-2006.html/feed 0 124699 The Taste of Things (2023) https://www.alternateending.com/2024/02/the-taste-of-things-2023.html https://www.alternateending.com/2024/02/the-taste-of-things-2023.html#respond Sat, 24 Feb 2024 20:17:32 +0000 https://www.alternateending.com/?p=124463

It makes one feel at least slightly like an easy mark to be enormously enthusiastic for The Taste of Things, a movie that feels like it was created in a lab for people with middlebrow tastes who felt "sophisticated" when they watched European art cinema in the 1990s. It's French. It stars J...

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It makes one feel at least slightly like an easy mark to be enormously enthusiastic for The Taste of Things, a movie that feels like it was created in a lab for people with middlebrow tastes who felt "sophisticated" when they watched European art cinema in the 1990s. It's French. It stars J...

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]]> https://www.alternateending.com/2024/02/the-taste-of-things-2023.html/feed 0 124463 Journey to Bethlehem (2023) https://www.alternateending.com/2023/11/journey-to-bethlehem-2023.html https://www.alternateending.com/2023/11/journey-to-bethlehem-2023.html#respond Mon, 27 Nov 2023 20:08:53 +0000 https://www.alternateending.com/?p=124008

If you've ever thought that the story of how the blessed virgin Mary met and wed the Nazarene carpenter Joseph before the two of them traveled to Bethlehem in time for her to give birth to the Son of God would be a really great subject for a teen romcom... wow. I am concerned about how your mind wor...

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If you've ever thought that the story of how the blessed virgin Mary met and wed the Nazarene carpenter Joseph before the two of them traveled to Bethlehem in time for her to give birth to the Son of God would be a really great subject for a teen romcom... wow. I am concerned about how your mind wor...

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]]> https://www.alternateending.com/2023/11/journey-to-bethlehem-2023.html/feed 0 124008 Once Upon a Time in China (1991) https://www.alternateending.com/2023/09/once-upon-a-time-in-china-1991.html https://www.alternateending.com/2023/09/once-upon-a-time-in-china-1991.html#respond Fri, 22 Sep 2023 04:50:25 +0000 https://www.alternateending.com/?p=123480

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There are two parti...

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]]> https://www.alternateending.com/2023/09/once-upon-a-time-in-china-1991.html/feed 0 123480 Inu-oh (2021) https://www.alternateending.com/2023/02/inu-oh-2021.html https://www.alternateending.com/2023/02/inu-oh-2021.html#respond Thu, 23 Feb 2023 03:49:52 +0000 https://www.alternateending.com/?p=122053

Around the time that the Japanese animated feature Inu-oh premiered at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival, its director, Yuasa Masaaki, announced that he'd be taking a break of indeterminate length. Few people can claim to have better earned such a thing: after co-founding the anim...

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Around the time that the Japanese animated feature Inu-oh premiered at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival, its director, Yuasa Masaaki, announced that he'd be taking a break of indeterminate length. Few people can claim to have better earned such a thing: after co-founding the anim...

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The Woman King suffers from only one seriously unanswerable flaw, in my estimation, and it is unfortunately a pretty significant one given what the film is. Namely, its scenes of 19th Century warfare, using a mixture of guns, traditional African tribal weaponry, and what I greatly suspect a...

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The Woman King suffers from only one seriously unanswerable flaw, in my estimation, and it is unfortunately a pretty significant one given what the film is. Namely, its scenes of 19th Century warfare, using a mixture of guns, traditional African tribal weaponry, and what I greatly suspect a...

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Nobody gets anywhere near a high school prom in Corsage, a European co-production that’s primarily Austrian (that’s where its writer-director, Marie Kreutzer, hails from) but has strategically been given a French title certain to confuse American viewers. Wh...

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Nobody gets anywhere near a high school prom in Corsage, a European co-production that’s primarily Austrian (that’s where its writer-director, Marie Kreutzer, hails from) but has strategically been given a French title certain to confuse American viewers. Wh...

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]]> https://www.alternateending.com/2023/01/corsage-2022.html/feed 0 121752 Dangerous Liaisons (1988) https://www.alternateending.com/2022/09/dangerous-liaisons-1988.html https://www.alternateending.com/2022/09/dangerous-liaisons-1988.html#respond Wed, 07 Sep 2022 23:58:24 +0000 https://www.alternateending.com/?p=120141

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Do you have a movie you'...

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A review requested by Brian, with thanks to supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon. Do you have a movie you'...

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]]> https://www.alternateending.com/2022/09/dangerous-liaisons-1988.html/feed 0 120141 Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) https://www.alternateending.com/2022/09/three-thousand-years-of-longing-2022.html https://www.alternateending.com/2022/09/three-thousand-years-of-longing-2022.html#respond Fri, 02 Sep 2022 06:29:35 +0000 https://www.alternateending.com/?p=120134

George Miller's directorial career, which only now arrives at Feature Film #10, 43 years after his debut, consists basically of only weird movies and very weird movies, which should make me pause before saying that Three Thousand Years of Longing is the weirdest, and yet here we ar...

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George Miller's directorial career, which only now arrives at Feature Film #10, 43 years after his debut, consists basically of only weird movies and very weird movies, which should make me pause before saying that Three Thousand Years of Longing is the weirdest, and yet here we ar...

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]]> https://www.alternateending.com/2022/09/three-thousand-years-of-longing-2022.html/feed 0 120134 Prey (2022) https://www.alternateending.com/2022/08/prey-2022.html https://www.alternateending.com/2022/08/prey-2022.html#respond Mon, 08 Aug 2022 04:01:16 +0000 https://www.alternateending.com/?p=119827

In the three-and-a-half decades since the release of the exquisitely focused and gnarly Predator, a high point in the careers of both director John McTiernan and star Arnold Schwarzenegger, that fil...

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In the three-and-a-half decades since the release of the exquisitely focused and gnarly Predator, a high point in the careers of both director John McTiernan and star Arnold Schwarzenegger, that fil...

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