Ben Merrill

Ben Merrill

Favorite films

  • Dune: Part Two
  • The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
  • Parasite
  • Shutter Island

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • The Wild Robot

    ★★★½

  • Perfect Days

    ★★★★

  • The Gorge

    ★★★½

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  • The Monkey

    The Monkey

    ★★½

    A few funny moments baked into this otherwise kinda sleepy, goofy horror movie.

  • Flow

    Flow

    ★★★

    A beautifully animated critical analysis of the tumultuous relationship between cats and dogs in the 21st century… endearing. Enlightening. I walked away asking myself: “is it possible that cats and dogs really could get along?” The answer: sometimes, yeah, I guess.

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  • A Sudden Case of Christmas

    A Sudden Case of Christmas

    My jaw dropped when Danny DeVito said to his son-in-law “that’s a very nice camera for taking pictures of kids

    This is a cheery movie about a family of emotionally (and some sexually) deprived people who don’t know how to talk to each other. Did I mention they’re all nonchalant about cheating? The way the various relationships are “resolved” by the end of the movie had me very confused based on the journey everyone went on.

    If I squint my eyes and turn the volume off I can get excited when Danny DeVito is on screen or a little puppy dog.

  • Barbie

    Barbie

    ★★★½

    Super fun, would 100% see it again. I was a bit lost in the sauce of patriarchy for a bit there. Those horses did look awesome. 

    Maybe not always the clearest in what it’s trying to get across, but consistently fun, nonetheless.