benhowej

benhowej

Favorite films

  • Dune: Part Two
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • Memories of Murder
  • West Side Story

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  • Three Thousand Years of Longing

    ★★★★½

  • No Other Land

    ★★★★

  • Gone Girl

    ★★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

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  • Three Thousand Years of Longing

    Three Thousand Years of Longing

    ★★★★½

    George Miller can never do wrong in my eyes

  • No Other Land

    No Other Land

    ★★★★

    I think this is a documentary regardless of however you feel about the conflict most should watch. They don’t make grand overarching statements, actually, most of the time they continuously say they don’t have answers. It’s truly a story of friendship between a Palestinian man and Israeli. While showcasing the takeover of a rural area in Gaza. It’s not a traditional documentary in the sense it’s almost a movie as it’s a singular story. 

    However, it’s impossible to watch this…

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  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain

    ★★★★½

    This movie is simple, but it’s about as perfectly executed as it could be. None of the characters decisions felt like they were moving the plot forward, but truly characters living on screen.

    For the actual story, Eisenberg’s decision to leave many things open to interpretation was well done. This will definitely be a movie I can throw on in 5-10 years, and the characters’ decisions will be completely different depending on the stage of life I’m in. My interpretation…

  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★½

    Genuinely terrible. I never feel like my time is wasted at the theaters but this one did it for me. Can’t remember the last time I was sitting in a movie and wishing for it to fucking end. 

    TC performance does deserve some praise. He pulled off a pretty unlikeable character. 

    Which gets me to my next point. I genuinely don’t know who this movie is for. It’s 2 hours of non stop Bob Dylan performances. Quite literally nothing else.…

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