brinkmanj

brinkmanj

if it’s gonna take 2hrs of my life it better be good 🤌

Favorite films

  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  • Interstellar
  • Gone Girl
  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1

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  • Snow White

    ★½

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★

  • Cuckoo

    ★★½

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  • Snow White

    Snow White

    ★½

    Dwarves are giving polar express

  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★

    Skyfall and Oceans 11 have a baby and Cate Blanchett is mother!

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★

    I haven’t been this mad leaving a movie in a while. The plot is scattered, the comedy is cheap, and the plot tries to comment on too many political points to feel cohesive or compelling. 

    The crux of my complaints can be summed up in two words: “wasted potential.” This cast is stacked with some pretty heavy hitters and fails to utilize them well.

    Robert Pattinson is the best part of this film, and he does a decent job of…

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★

    I left the theater feeling as though I had left an art history class. The Brutalist embodies its architectural namesake. It’s raw, bold, exposed, even harsh, but bursting with complex beauty. It may get a lot of heat for being pretentious (it is a 215 minute film after all) but I admire Corbet for giving it everything he’s got. 

    This movie comments on the hollowness of the capitalistic, post-war American dream as seen through the eyes of a resilient holocaust-surviving…

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