alexwatts

alexwatts

Favorite films

  • John Wick
  • Secretary
  • Magnolia
  • Heathers

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  • Whiplash

    ★★★★

  • Inland Empire

    ★★★★★

  • Babygirl

    ★★★½

  • Mission: Impossible III

    ★★★

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  • Babygirl

    Babygirl

    ★★★½

    one of the better erotic thrillers I’ve seen as far as the actual eroticism and anxiety go. There was a realism to the sex scenes that made things much more intense and not less sexy, something difficult to do. 
    The message that Eyes Wide Shut communicated far more subtly and beautifully is the same one here. Female sexuality is a powerful and occasionally dark force, something men refuse to believe or are scared of and thereby make us ashamed of…

  • Mission: Impossible III

    Mission: Impossible III

    ★★★

    I love action movies the most when they know exactly what they are, and Mission Impossible like, pretty much does (not a perfect stick they're going a little too into Bourne territory here but the face tech and the bridge scene make up for it)

    Tom Cruise star power in this franchise really makes you wonder who could pull it off now...perhaps nobody...

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  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★½

    great movie for incredibly vapid people

    Just really speaks to a lot of what frustrates me the most about the current culture… 
    A brightly colored sloppy cross-genre mess of a delivery of these washed and poorly conceived pseudointellectual commentaries about some groups exploitation that has nothing new or redeeming to say about said exploitation and in fact seems to buy in on it completely
    hiding their half-baked idiotic thesis about women hating themselves (if you didn’t already hate women you…

  • Madame Web

    Madame Web

    ½

    I didn’t have a bad time watching this movie. I had a better time watching this movie than most movies I’ve watched recently.
    I had 2 glasses of red wine and some graham crackers and I sat my ass down and listened to what Marvel’s response to their latest string of failures would be. The response is the biggest failure of all.
    But this colossal failure is impressive in the sense that it is so colossal it’s finally inverted the…

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