Jared Firstbrook

Jared Firstbrook

Just your average film school graduate except I came out the other side actually enjoying movies.

Favorite films

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Inside Llewyn Davis
  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • The Exorcist

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  • Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

    ★★★½

  • Night at the Museum

    ★★★★

  • TRON: Legacy

    ★★★★

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★★

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  • Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

    Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

    ★★★½

    Tries to get a little more out of its parts but still is a fun little romp. 

    The first one is so contained and simple and that’s what makes it work as well as it does, but this one kinda falls into sequel tropes of having to have everything bigger and it feels more lifeless as a result. 

    Still fun, but not as well done as the first.

  • Night at the Museum

    Night at the Museum

    ★★★★

    Understands itself so well and stays perfectly in its lane. It’s not trying to be everything, just what the script asks of it. 

    “I’m made of wax Larry, what are you made of?”

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  • Killers of the Flower Moon

    Killers of the Flower Moon

    ★★★★½

    Up there as one of the most important films about America. What do we stand for as a country? How do we interact with those who were here first? What lengths will we go to for money? How much is too much? 

    Killers of the Flower Moon does what Marty does best: hold a mirror up to society and forces us to reckon with the worst parts of ourselves. Our society is built on corruption, greed, violence, and a “by…

  • Ricochet

    Ricochet

    ★★★½

    Me at the beginning of the movie: “Young Denzel is way too hot.”

    Me at the end of the movie: “This movie is absolutely deranged.”

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