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Favorite films

  • The Apartment
  • Only Lovers Left Alive
  • The Town
  • A League of Their Own

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  • All We Imagine as Light

    ★★★★

  • Down with Love

    ★★½

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★★

  • Night Moves

    ★★★★★

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★★

    My presidential platform is that nobody should be allowed to make a movie over three hours until they’ve successfully made a movie under ninety minutes. Soderbergh is a master of economy, which means I would be delighted to watch a 4 hour director’s cut of these hot, devoted people outwitting everyone around them.

  • Night Moves

    Night Moves

    ★★★★★

    It’s not my favorite Kelly Reinhardt but it might be the best Kelly Reinhardt. It’s like she made First Reformed before Paul Schrader did. Incredible work from Jesse Eisenberg and Dakota Fanning.

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  • The Beast

    The Beast

    ½

    This movie has like another hour left and i hate it so much. I appreciated the first 45 minutes and thought i could see what it was trying to do. Then we entered the 2014 scenes and it never recovered. I hate this movie and I’m at a loss as to why anybody connects with this movie. I can’t relate to anything in this movie. Nothing about this feels like the human condition. It barely feels made by a human…

  • Juror #2

    Juror #2

    I’m losing my mind and I think everyone else has too. I am the dream audience for this movie, I’ve rewatched like 3 John Grisham adaptations this year alone and crave more. But this feels like a movie made by a 94 year old who has never watched a single episode of Law and Order and doesn’t understand that his audience - and the fictional jury in this movie - certainly have. 

    We were only 15 minutes into this movie…

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