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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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Alone (2020): Daringly Simple To A Fault
For as much as the extrovert in me hated those don't talk to strangers PSA's, I understand that it only takes one bad apple to ruin the...
Jul 313 min read
Inglourious Basterds: Brilliant, Brutal Revisionism
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a movie made for two very particular crowds. The first crowd consists of cinephiles, and the...
Jul 304 min read
Blue Ruin: A Stripped-Down, Effective Revenge Drama
Dwight Evans wants mortal revenge on a man freshly released from jail. I don't blame him. If my parents were murdered, I would want...
Jul 293 min read
Kpop Demon Hunters: Both Smart and Heartfelt
By the time the clock struck midnight on Saturday of last week, KPop Demon Hunters had become the first-ever Netflix film to hit a...
Jul 294 min read
Apocalypse Now: A Beautiful Spectacle of Insanity
Rewatching Francis Ford Coppola's infamous and legendary Apocalypse Now, a quote from another movie came to mind: "As the world fell,...
Jul 286 min read
Death of a Unicorn Mildly Surprised Me
A unicorn isn't the only thing that dies in A24's Death of a Unicorn. Elliot Kinter and his daughter, Riley, are still mourning the...
Jul 264 min read
Sniper: The White Raven is a Mixed Bag
Sniper: The White Raven is first a human drama that doesn't work, and second, a war film that works more often than it doesn't. Our main...
Jul 264 min read
The Nightingale is Not For The Faint of Heart
What struck me about Jennifer Kent's The Nightingale was its often-horrifically matter-of-fact nature. In many ways, I miss the subtext...
Jul 254 min read
Macbeth (2015): Every Frame a Painting
I was first introduced to Shakespeare's Macbeth by one particularly brooding chapter of Story of the World, a truly excellent history...
Jul 244 min read
Predators: Suspenseful Enough But Hollow
If nothing else, Nimr ó d Antel's 2010 standalone sequel Predators spits out what is by far the most uncomfortable line of dialogue I've...
Jul 244 min read
Heads of State: Average Yet Hilarious Action
For as much as our neighbors in Britain are partial to labeling America as "just another one of our discontented exes," deep down,...
Jul 234 min read
The Bad Guys: An Undeniably Fun Theft of Ideas
Based on a series of graphic novels bearing the same name, I cannot figure out for the life of me why the filmmakers portray some of the...
Jul 233 min read
Moana 2: Scared To Be Daring
There are two types of sequels in this world, sequels that exist because there's another story to be told in a given world, and sequels...
Jul 233 min read
Eddington Spiked My Blood Pressure
Nostalgic for 2020? Me neither. Except for one older couple, my friend and I were the only people in the theater for Eddington , and I...
Jul 226 min read
Moana: Vivid and Vibrant
Whatever your thoughts on Disney's penchant for swooping down on obscure cultural legends to repeatedly mine fuel for their never-ending...
Jul 194 min read
Homefront: A Homegrown Batch of Tropes
Critics tend to go hard on crowd-pleasing action movies because you can only see so much of a thing before it grows tiresome. What is for...
Jul 123 min read
American Psycho: Satisfyingly Simple Satire
Patrick Bateman walks on sunshine (woooah-oh) . But when the sun goes down, he runs. Specifically, he runs after a woman fleeing down his...
Jul 124 min read
The Thicket: Clichéd But Colorful
You know what they say. "One day, you're an angry elf, and the next, you're an angry bounty hunter." At least that's what I say. And...
Jul 114 min read
The Tomorrow War: Perfectly Watchable
To get controversial, the more I read about Chris Pratt, the more I like him. Whatever you think of his personal beliefs, I respect the...
Jul 104 min read
Gladiator: Simple Yet Universally Epic
History isn't much more than a series of psychopathic, power-hungry individuals wielding tyrannical or ideally questionable power over a...
Jul 104 min read
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