Christopher John

Christopher John

Film critic from Perth, WA

My Disney-style "I Want" song is "Someday I'll Watch all the Studio Ghibli Movies...Someday"

Favorite films

  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Taxi Driver
  • Koyaanisqatsi
  • Laura's Choice

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  • Mother of the Bride

  • Mea Culpa

  • He Went That Way

  • X-Men

    ★★★★

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  • Mother of the Bride

    Mother of the Bride

    pure unwatchable dogshit

  • Mea Culpa

    Mea Culpa

    tyler perry is definitely on the list of hack directors

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  • Transformers One

    Transformers One

    ★★★★

    screening at Hoyts Carousel w/Brother Mitchell

    At first, has a very serviceable, almost generic pace that isn't much to write home about. Tends to try too hard for a laugh.

    Once the action leaves Iacon City, things get progressively better and better, with deeper lore, compelling twists, and strong character development. It is (ahem) more than meets the eye. When our characters return to their home, TRANSFORMERS ONE becomes brilliant and the finest film in the franchise so far. Taking…

  • Nitram

    Nitram

    ★★★★

    NITRAM is incredible. Dark, harrowing, definitely not for the faint-hearted. The portrait of an ill young man who was not given the help and proper treatment he needed, a sickness in him that festered into a rot, personified into an action that changed Australian history. Martin Bryant committed an act of pure evil, and while the film makes no excuses about it, it also proposes that it was a product of negligent mental health services, undiagnosed parental illnesses, an ignorant…

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