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Favorite films

  • Inception
  • Do the Right Thing
  • Alien
  • It's a Wonderful Life

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  • Play It as It Lays

    ★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • Barry Lyndon

    ★★★★½

  • Murder by Contract

    ★★★★

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  • Play It as It Lays

    Play It as It Lays

    ★★★

    My first introduction to Joan Didion's whole deal.

    I'm guessing this worked better as a book, where Maria's existential struggle could be given the inner voice it probably deserves. I could never fully hate a movie that's this formally inventive, but did not find that the engaging cinematography or mixed-medium aspects connected to the story in a meaningful way.

    Like Winter Kills, which I also saw at Film Forum with Parker and which also involves Anthony Perkins, this film is…

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★

    Has that special insanity sauce that Bong brings to his English-language films for some reason. Kinda switches gears thematically halfway through—I uhhhhh would have liked to see more of the love square. Playing different versions of yourself is very in these days; glad we got Pattinson in on it so that both of him could be as freaky and sloppy as possible.

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  • BlackBerry

    BlackBerry

    ★★★★

    Director Matt Johnson did a Q&A at IFC after—which spilled out to him just hanging out on 6th Ave—that clarified a lot of things I felt watching this movie. None of these quotes are literally accurate (do you think I'm the kind of guy who brings a notebook to movies?) but they are vibrationally accurate, like the film.

    On copyright: "I specifically tried to violate as many people's copyright as possible. It sucks when you're watching a movie and they're…

  • Conclave

    Conclave

    ★★★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.