Michael Brightling

Michael Brightling

Favorite films

  • The Hateful Eight
  • Psycho
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  • Back to the Future

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  • The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

    ★★★★

  • Spanglish

    ★★½

  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

    ★★★★★

  • St. Vincent

    ★★★★

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  • Ricochet

    Ricochet

    ★★★★

    If you see only one film this year featuring John Lithgow and Jesse Ventura having a fight with samurai swords - make it this one!

  • Lone Star

    Lone Star

    ★★★★★

    Where was the oscar nomination for Elizabeth Pena?

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  • The Hateful Eight

    The Hateful Eight

    ★★★★★

    I feel like an outlier in that The Hateful Eight is my favourite Tarantino film. It's generally ranked towards the bottom of his filmography and gets dumped on for a variety of reasons: too talky, a waste of 70 mm, no positive characters and so on.

    With all the characters stuck indoors during a snow storm, it is very talky. That's true. But it's Tarantino and there are no characters I'd rather hear speak than those from his pen. When…

  • Kiss of Death

    Kiss of Death

    ★★★★

    For a brief shining moment there was a redheaded male movie star. It was a glorious time.

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