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  • Mission: Impossible II

    ★★★

  • Mission: Impossible

    ★★★★½

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

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  • Mission: Impossible II

    Mission: Impossible II

    ★★★

    Pay attention to the final fight on the sand. The light keeps changing. One shot it's bright sunlight on their faces, then it's overcast. Very sloppy and distracting once you see it.

  • Mission: Impossible

    Mission: Impossible

    ★★★★½

    "You've never seen me very upset."

    Excellent motivated use of the split diopter throughout most of the movie. One egregious use. In the room in Langley with Kitrige during the break-in, De Palma uses it to show the Gatekeeper of the NOC list the back of the room in focus. He does nothing in that shot.

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  • Jersey Girl

    Jersey Girl

    ★★★★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • The 4:30 Movie

    The 4:30 Movie

    ★★★★

    World Premiere Benefit at SModcastle Cinemas.

    It's fun to watch the world premiere of a movie at the location it was filmed in.

    It's a lightly fictionalized version of when Kevin was in high school and hanging out with his friends. One of them, Ernie O'Donnell, is the co-owner of the theater and is one of the producers of the film. It was neat to be in the theater where these people first thought about making movies, seeing a movie…