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MY FAVORITE FILMS
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"You see, in their last moments, people show you who they really are. So, in a way, I know your friends better than you ever did. Would you like to know which of them were cowards?"
"The Dark Knight"
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Hostiles: Simple Yet Nonjudgmental
Justice or revenge? Who's to say? In a culture that feels an insatiable need to cast moralistic judgment on every matter social,...
May 313 min read
I Feel Conflicted About To Catch a Killer
To Catch a Killer is more or less one long and unusually well-shot episode of Criminal Minds. A mass shooter is on the loose after his...
May 313 min read
The Lego Batman Movie: Colorfully Complete
As someone who watches a lot of movies and has no plans of slowing down, it's getting easier and easier for me to see when a movie is...
May 283 min read
Terminator Salvation: Ambitious But Imprecise
Marcus Wright is dead, executed for multiple remorseless murders by a government that didn't know that both they and Marcus were living...
May 283 min read
Rango: A Zany, Visionary Animated Western
One of the most satisfying things a movie can do is assemble a talented group of storytellers to tell a familiar story in a way it's...
May 273 min read
Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning: An Imperfectly Proper Sendoff
Something about media franchise finales is hard to get right. How often have we seen remarkable middle acts followed by mediocre or even...
May 273 min read
The Last of Us S2 Finale "Convergence" Review
Much of season two of The Last of Us has felt like an uncomfortably out-of-place tryst, and while I couldn't speak as to where Craig...
May 262 min read
Reckoning With My Shortcomings as a Critic
The children we used to be were easily impressed by the magic of cinema. I didn't watch many movies growing up, and I still remember my...
May 266 min read
Terminator 3: A Creatively-Void Cash Grab
A robotic killing machine is commissioned to hunt down and kill a very special and entirely-unaware target on Earth, and the only thing...
May 233 min read
Fall Was Unbelievably Terrifying
Are you scared of heights? You will be after this movie. Any aspirations I had of unsponsored climbing or any sort of climbing flew away...
May 223 min read
The Sea of Trees: It's Awful, Awful, Awful
Gus Van Sant's The Sea of Trees should be inducted into some manner of cinematic hall of fame, and not for good reasons. This mystery...
May 212 min read
Critical Recommendation: The Hurt Locker
Countless movies have been made on the topic of war, and most of them try to pencil-scratch some word on a blank. War is...war is hell, a...
May 203 min read
Speak No Evil: A Smart Movie Without Many Ideas
Christian Tafdrup's Speak No Evil suffers from a peculiar disconnect. Many of its more minor and intimate details are immaculately...
May 193 min read
I Really, Really Liked Nobody
Ilya Naishuller's Nobody is a familiar and formulaic movie about Hutch Mansell, a dangerous man who's had enough with today's batch of...
May 192 min read
The Last of Us S2 E6 "The Price" Review
Put your ear to the streets of Hollywood, and the message you'll be hearing is that The Last of Us hasn't been doing so well for the last...
May 193 min read
Winter's Bone: Authentic and Astonishing
Throughout my life, I've had the pleasure of being able to interact with diverse and even clashing groups of people. Even at the young...
May 183 min read
Migration: Feel-Good Familiarity
Illumination's 2023 animated feature Migration is to movies what comfort food is to eating. It looks like other Illumination movies, acts...
May 162 min read
The Boogeyman: Impactful if Indistinguishable
Who was your monster in the closet or under the bed when you were a child? How did you feel about this monster after staring it down for...
May 163 min read
Interstellar: Imperfectly, Achingly Beautiful
Twas' the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring.... ...except for two brothers watching...
May 153 min read
Baby Driver: A Masterful Confluence of the Arts
I did a long stint in musical theater throughout middle school and high school, and I enjoyed just about every minute of it, which I...
May 143 min read
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