Colin McDonnell

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Favorite films

  • His Girl Friday
  • How Green Was My Valley
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
  • The Apartment

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  • The Brood

    ★★★½

  • It

    ★★★

  • The Conversation

    ★★★½

  • The Trial

    ★★★★

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  • Nightmare Alley

    Nightmare Alley

    ★★★

    Not as good as the original, which is no sin.

    The movie is beautifully crafted and elegant, which is to its detriment, especially in the first half. Everything looks too sleek, too beautiful. No one is very credible as seedy carny folk working the underbelly of society. (Even at the end, when he's supposed to be at the bottom of the barrel, Bradley Cooper looks to be a quick shower away from being on the cover of GQ's Sexiest Man…

  • Zola

    Zola

    ★★

    Boring. Never as harrowing or as zany as it wants to be. Feels like it couldn't decide on which tone to take and wound up being neither fish nor fowl. Of course, many films are capable of straddling that line. This isn't one of them.

    Both lead actresses (Taylour Paige & Riley Keough) are game. Colman Domingo wears fun clothes. Nicholas Braun is a less interesting version of his Succession character. Knowing the movie is based on a viral Twitter thread…