alexsolomon

alexsolomon

Favorite films

  • Grizzly Man
  • Barry Lyndon
  • There Will Be Blood
  • Stalker

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  • A Scanner Darkly

    ★★

  • Juror #2

    ★★★

  • Conclave

    ★★★

  • Nosferatu

    ★★★½

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  • A Scanner Darkly

    A Scanner Darkly

    ★★

    Decides to get good and ends.

  • Juror #2

    Juror #2

    ★★★

    Standard

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  • Avatar: The Way of Water

    Avatar: The Way of Water

    Visuals are not earning stars from me on this one because, instead being a benign or even distracting foliage, they’re the root of the film’s problems. Yes. They can be great, detailed, and stunning. They can also be tiresome, repetitive, and chew up screen time, wasting time that would have been better spent, I don’t know, actually telling a story. 

    Avatar: The Way of Water, like its predecessor, is a bland and derivative movie, but at least the first one…

  • Hook

    Hook

    ★★★★

    People seem to love hating on Hook, but they all parrot the same points about Speilburg’s divorce, the film’s budget, and it’s overly whimsical nature, as if it isn’t a story about people struggling with maturity, responsibility, and aging, set on a magical island with fairies, mermaids, and pirates. Maybe they don’t like seeing themselves and their progressively callous and unimaginative lives reflected in an older, disillusioned Peter Pan; maybe Pan’s embracing of his inner child hurts and shames those who…

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