Alex M.

Alex M.

Favorite films

  • Rushmore
  • Being John Malkovich
  • Fight Club
  • High Fidelity

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  • Waves

    ★★★

  • The American Society of Magical Negroes

    ★★

  • American Fiction

    ★★★★½

  • Past Lives

    ★★★★½

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  • Waves

    Waves

    ★★★

    Cool things become corny, some times...  

    Sterling K Brown may be one of my favourite actors, I'm a new Taylor Russell fan for sure. Damn they got Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross on this too. 

    This was compared to euphoria a lot and I can see it in the way that it feels like it's born out of tumblr. It became easy to read what choices the writer director was going to make especially when this teenage girl brought…

  • The American Society of Magical Negroes

    The American Society of Magical Negroes

    ★★

    Promises to be a satire on the magical negro trope but it doesn't really deliver on quite a few fronts and leaves a bad taste

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  • The Hateful Eight

    The Hateful Eight

    ★★★★★

    Actually one of my favourite Tarantino films. For a filmmaker who likes to bend history to his own liking, I wonder if he can imagine a world where there are no “Ni**ers” but just black people.

  • Saltburn

    Saltburn

    ★★★½

    Partial to the ‘eat the rich’ genre but this was a bit cringe for me in places, and not the intended cringe I’m supposed to feel I don’t think… plus it doesn’t really fall into that category as the film doesn’t really critique that side of things. They just attracted a mad man. 
    It’s cool though, enjoyable. Oliver’s obsession with Felix is kinda close to how I interpreted Nick Carraway relationship with Gatsby when i read The Great Gatsby. Except for the sociopathic tendencies.

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