Alistair Ryder

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Favorite films

  • All That Jazz
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Jaws
  • Burn After Reading

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  • Sister Midnight

    ★★½

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Empire of the Sun

    ★★★★

  • Motel Destino

    ★★★½

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  • The Electric State

    The Electric State

    ½

    In a 2023 interview with Variety, "Avengers: Endgame" director Joe Russo made the bold prediction that the first feature-length film made entirely by AI would be released by the end of 2025. If you didn't know any better prior to watching "The Electric State," the latest blockbuster from Joe and his brother Anthony, you'd assume this was the movie he predicted the algorithm would generate: a retro futurist adventure with a story built from the bones of better movies, as…

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★

    If you felt that "Starship Troopers" played it too straight as a satire and needed more characters directly explaining to the audience that they were parodying fascism, then "Mickey 17" is for you. Bong Joon Ho’s films have never been particularly subtle in their social critique, but after the deservedly acclaimed upper-class skewering of "Parasite," it has been forgotten that the Korean director's screenplays more commonly tend to be on the heavy-handed side.

    Nobody in the audience could possibly miss…

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  • Sister Midnight

    Sister Midnight

    ★★½

    Truly puts the mid in midnight etc etc. Longest 1hr47 movie ever made, possibly?

  • The Penguin Lessons

    The Penguin Lessons

    ★★★½

    Steve Coogan: the unheralded and yet indisputable king of the British, middlebrow, Sony Pictures Classics coded movie. Despite the insane elevator pitch of ‘Dead Poets Society meets I’m Still Here, with a penguin’ this works very well! I was moved!

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  • New Order

    New Order

    ★★

    Finally, a film that answers the question "what if Parasite was made by a guy who hated the working class". The new favourite arthouse film for every insufferable right wing guy who tweets that the left are the real fascists

  • The Little Things

    The Little Things

    ★½

    The Shittle Things