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Blow Out 1981
Shifting the central premise of Blow-Up from the eye to the ear, riffing on The Conversation, De Palma has constructed one of the finest and most gripping conspiracy thrillers ever seen.
It’s Watergate; it’s Chappaquidick; American politics as a series of shady, backdoor dealings where human lives are recklessly put up as collateral.
Such a bleak and beautiful movie. Every time I watch the Criterion 4K, I am convinced it is the best looking transfer in my collection.
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Mulholland Drive 2001
I spent the afternoon mourning the fact that David Lynch was not given the chance to make one last career-capping artistic statement. So many of our filmmaking masters are living into their 80s, and getting to redefine their legacies with movies like The Fabelmans or Killers of the Flower Moon. Spielberg, Scorsese, Scott, Mann, and many more feel as though they know they’re gearing up for their final works.
Lynch’s last years were quiet on the filmmaking front, and that is…
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Intolerable Cruelty 2003
George Clooney we need you as a movie star again please. No directing films about boys in boats for a few years.
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018
“Remember, what makes you different is what makes you Spider-Man.”
It is crazy to me that we’re in a year where Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War came out and this Sony animated film is the best superhero movie I’ve seen in 2018. It’s difficult to collect my rambling thoughts about how much I loved this film so this review won’t be very analytical.
Everything about this movie was so fresh, beautiful, and fun. The story was suprisingly mature for…
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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood 2019
“Anybody accidentally kills anybody in a fight, they go to jail. It’s called manslaughter.”
Tarantino has done it again. Every component from cinematography, lighting, soundtrack, direction, editing, writing, pacing, tone, and especially the acting is totally phenomenal. This was my first time seeing a Tarantino film in theaters and that was such a lovely experience. Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt should really just get a joint Oscar for this one, their chemistry is perfect and each of them is so…
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