Jon Nelson

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Favorite films

  • Parasite
  • I ♥ Huckabees
  • The Square
  • Jurassic Park

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  • Hotel Transylvania

    ★★★

  • Paddington in Peru

  • We Live in Time

    ★★½

  • Easy A

    ★★★★

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  • Hotel Transylvania

    Hotel Transylvania

    ★★★

    I’m sorry but the performances are great in this

  • Paddington in Peru

    Paddington in Peru

    Really not a fan of cg talking animals…

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  • The Bikeriders

    The Bikeriders

    ★★★★½

    As a long time motorcyclist I was afraid to watch this, thinking it was going to just be a broad stroke of cliche for two hours, showing us where the Brooklyn moto hipster came from and ultimately how someone like my good friend Chad Hodge could design a retro helmet that would fly off the Bell shelves for years, brandished by the aforementioned walking (or riding) urban cliche. But by the end, Nichols had me realizing that everything else we’ve…

  • The Deepest Breath

    The Deepest Breath

    ★★

    DEATH DEATH DEATH!!!
    WHO’S DEAD???
    WOULDN’T YOU LIKE TO KNOW???

    In most documentaries the hand of the director is hidden within the process. Occasionally it doesn’t matter, but more and more frequently in modern doc cinema the experience of the crew is entirely different the experience of the audience. The director may ask or coerce or strong-arm a subject into doing something they normally wouldn’t—all in the name of her holier-than-thou film. The audience smiles and cries, applauding and awarding…

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