CooperJWalton

CooperJWalton

Favorite films

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Stalker
  • Man with a Movie Camera

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  • One Battle After Another

  • Stop Making Sense

    ★★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • Anora

    ★★★★

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  • Synecdoche, New York

    Synecdoche, New York

    ★★★★★

    i was a baby once…
    this movie is beautiful, devastating and deeply disturbed. there are a million people in my mind and time moves forward for them all the same. absolutely sickening. i love charlie kaufman.

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★

    Mmmmmm Oscar bait trauma porn. I really wanted to like this movie, but it’s an absolute mess. The way this film handles its numerous horrific subject matters feels incredibly disingenuous, playing them for shock and plot intrigue only to drop and pick them up when convenient. For as long a film as this was, it seems reasonable to hope for consistent gaze into the protagonist’s psyche, but aside from a few powerful scenes, Brody’s character is inconsistent and incomprehensible, only…