AJ MacReady

AJ MacReady

Favorite films

  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • The Thing
  • True Romance
  • Cloud Atlas

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  • Companion

    ★★★★

  • The Burning

    ★★★★

  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

    ★★★★★

  • Color of Night

    ★★★★½

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  • Late for Dinner

    Late for Dinner

    ★★★★½

    Just the sweetest fucking movie. One of the very rare movies that hinges on a fantastic occurrence of a decidedly sci-fi variety that has no interest in that whatsoever and only uses it to explore the effect on the characters and their relationships.
    It's just the sweetest fucking movie.

  • Dark City

    Dark City

    ★★★★★

    Director's Cut, motherfuckers

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  • Super 8

    Super 8

    ★★★★★

    This movie is such a personal experience for me that it's utterly impossible to be objective in any way about it.

    It's so much of what I love. It's so purely an expression of storytelling and character and spectacle and wonder above all.

    This film is magic and now that I've seen it, I don't know how I ever did without it before J.J. brought it into being.

    I wish there was a movie that feels like this coming out every summer for the rest of my life.

  • Zero Effect

    Zero Effect

    ★★★★½

    A couple random thoughts:

    This film is Bill Pullman's finest hour, and this is not up for debate.

    It saddens me that I live in a world where the fourth Transformer movie is only months away from release, yet there is no series of Daryl Zero flicks. They could have made at least three more by now, have not, and that is a goddamned shame.

    America's very own answer to Sherlock Holmes is as brilliant as you'd think, and as…