Adam Yates

Adam Yates

Favorite films

  • The Day of the Jackal
  • Heat
  • Speed
  • Parasite

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Last Breath

    ★★★

  • A Complete Unknown

    ★★★

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★

    It absolutely pains me to give this 2* but I'd be kidding myself if I gave more...

    Visually it's great
    But totally, it's all over the place and if I'm honest, I didn't like hardly any of the acting choices...
    So much scene chewing....

    The humour didn't translate to the audience in my opinion and wasnt edited and tight enough to gather laughs

    Parasite is one of my fave films ever.
    But go into this expecting more of an Okja…

  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★

    Sexy, cool and not reliant on action.
    Macguffin reliant for plot but it's a plot device for a reason.

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  • Promising Young Woman

    Promising Young Woman

    ★★★★

    Very powerful with threats rather than action.
    Dark but also doesn’t endulge the male satisfaction.
    My best Carey Mulligan performance.

  • Ad Astra

    Ad Astra

    ★★★★

    For a film focusing on an astronaut with historic low blood pressure, as an audience member, mine was sky high. Left the cinema in a state of breathlessness and anxiousness.
    A space movie for grown ups.
    Luckily a lot of the trailer spots were in the first half of the movie which kept me on the edge of my seat with a confident and measured Brad Pitt performance similar to his behaviour in Moneyball.
    The final third didn’t stick the…