Avaitor

Avaitor

Film student who's open to just about anything... but Disney really should cut back on the live-action remakes.

Favorite films

  • The Apartment
  • Pulp Fiction
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas
  • Badlands

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★½

  • A Star Is Born

    ★★★★

  • The China Syndrome

    ★★★★½

  • Drive-Away Dolls

    ★★★

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  • Vampire's Kiss

    Vampire's Kiss

    ★★★½

    I came in hoping for Nicolas Cage scene chewing, which I got in spades. But I also got a bizarre little film about loneliness that almost lands it?

  • Crimson Peak

    Crimson Peak

    ★★★

    This is why I like Del Toro better in theory than in practice- gorgeous but kind of dumb. I admire his passion but it needed at least another draft.

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  • Lady Sings the Blues

    Lady Sings the Blues

    ★★★

    This one infuriated me, because there are moments where it feels ALIVE and wonderful, but just as many, if not more, where it's just so. Boring. I almost passed out during. But the acting is great, Diana Ross in particular being wonderful as Billie. And the ending sequence was perfect. But too much of it dragged on by for me to truly enjoy it.

  • Ant-Man

    Ant-Man

    ★★★★

    And so we have it, the end of Phase 2- or the start of Phase 3? I'd really prefer to believe the former, tbh.

    But this is an enjoyable film, nice and mostly self-contained, which is something the MCU needed for a change of pace. At the same time though, the formula is running a little stale. While the ending promises something more for Evangeline Lily's character for the future, she deserved more in the film to begin with. The…