benkotenko

benkotenko

Favorite films

  • Training Day
  • A Star Is Born
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • When Harry Met Sally...

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  • Opus

    ½

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★

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  • Opus

    Opus

    ½

    Like if Spotify’s AI DJ made a movie and tricked a few people I really like to be in it (extremely derogatory).

  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★★

    A sleek and lavish experience perfectly executed in just over 90 minutes and for only $50 million, Black Bag is a glossy film simultaneously all about and indelibly marked by its clever attention to detail and the tenuous limits of manipulation and leveraging power.

    Using only a very tight cast from all across the spectrum of classically luxurious British tv and movies—two James Bond veterans, HBO’s Industry, Bridgerton—Steven Soderbergh crafts an ecosystem of the highest levels of wealth that comes…

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  • Flight Risk

    Flight Risk

    ½

    Horrendous. I saw a movie two years ago that was literally named fucking, PLANE, that was superior. Impossible to tell if the acting is bad or if the material is so distractingly awful (yes) no one could elevate it. The only impressive thing this movie accomplishes is making  Topher Grace unlikable. That he was paid money to make this affront to entertainment, Mel Gibson is absolute proof cancel culture doesn’t exist. Zero stars if I could.

  • Les Misérables

    Les Misérables

    ★★★★

    Javert’s  undoing was that he felt deep in his soul that Valjean’s hair slicked back, while I would contend instead that it was merely pushed back. People can change Russel Crowe

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