AJ Cook

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Favorite films

  • Prometheus
  • The Empty Man
  • Nickel Boys
  • Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Sonic the Hedgehog

    ★★½

  • The Raid

    ★★★★½

  • Heretic

    ★★★

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  • Emilia Pérez

    Emilia Pérez

    Rare it is that a movie so great comes along that you are compelled to write a long and glowing review. Even rarer it is that a movie comes along so awful that you’re compelled to write a longer and negative review.  

    I don’t get it. Like, at all. Why has this received universal critical praise when it contains roughly 1 (one) idea and it’s a misguided and ineffectual idea at that. Nothing here works. The music is unenjoyable…

  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★★★½

    Went in completely prepared to be totally neutral on this, having no meaningful connection to Dylan and his music. Was immediately sucked in by Timothee Chalamet’s performance however, which is what a true Star does. Equally convincing as the curious hopeful 20 year old and the disengaged mega famous contrarian. He’s great; he never gets the Oscar reel moment where the wheels come off and he lets loose, but that’s not what the movie tells us who Dylan is. He…

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★

    If you’re honest about the most important 10% of yourself with one another, does the other 90% even matter?

  • The Raid

    The Raid

    ★★★★½

    As good as it gets. Brutal and unflinching in the violence it shows, but really elevated by the stylized stunts and sound design. Top shelf

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  • Avatar: The Way of Water

    Avatar: The Way of Water

    ½

    Kept waiting for Aang to show up and learn water bending. what the heck is this

  • Red One

    Red One

    Dwayne Johnson should go to federal prison for comparing this to Oppenheimer