Johann Rucker

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museum educator + analog photographer

Favorite films

  • The Zone of Interest
  • Master Gardener
  • North Korea: The Parade
  • Daisies

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  • The Parenting

    ★★½

  • No Other Land

    ★★★★★

  • The Ape

    ★★½

  • Muse

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  • Zodiac Killer Project

    Zodiac Killer Project

    ★★★★½

    SUNDANCE 2025, FILM NO. 13

    Between this and David Osit's PREDATORS, Sundance '25 weirdly programmed two excellent documentaries about the consequences of consuming en masse any and all types of true crime drivel. Neither of these films is denigrating the work of the filmmakers or shaming the viewer, but each is examining how formulaic this cottage industry has always been and the potential for damage it has societally and psychologically.

    And if things couldn't get more interesting for me, Charlie…

  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

    ★★★★

    To paraphrase Meek Mill:

    There's three types of people in life
    People that make it happen
    (Gromit)
    People that watch it happen (Feathers McGraw)
    And people that don't even know what the fuck is going on (Wallace)

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  • The Parenting

    The Parenting

    ★★½

    You see Brian Cox's whole ass in this...

  • No Other Land

    No Other Land

    ★★★★★

    Packed house at The Beverly. You love to see it.

    NO OTHER LAND is impossible to deny. It lays it out so plainly through conversation and dialogue - what's happening in Palestine is wrong and we are all complicit. We've been propagandized into thinking this issue is more complicated than it is, but the core of it is common sense and a basic matter of inequality.

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  • The King's Man

    The King's Man

    ★★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga

    Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga

    Let Pierce Brosnan sing, you cowards.