DavidFishman

DavidFishman

The simple man’s take on movies

Favorite films

  • Snatch
  • There Will Be Blood
  • The Holdovers
  • In Bruges

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★

  • Juror #2

    ★★★

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★½

  • Paddington in Peru

    ★★★

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★

    As sharp as the weird Trader Joe’s toffee candy I snuck into the theater that poked my gum partway through the movie and made it not quite bleed but feel kinda uncomfortable so I kept prodding my gum for the next 10 minutes. Makes me want to take a polygraph test

  • Juror #2

    Juror #2

    ★★★

    Mom can we watch 12 angry men?
    No, we have Juror number 2 at home

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  • Emilia Pérez

    Emilia Pérez

    Really tried going into this open-minded, because the negative hype felt like a bandwagon. And dare I say I was intrigued by the premise? Unfortunately, this movie is simply bad. 
    Plot holes aside— and there were plenty— this had no business being a musical. Songs were half assed and felt like they were only added to paper over the parts of the script where the writers were too lazy to write real dialogue. Way too self serious, and felt almost…

  • The Birds

    The Birds

    ★★★½

    The Birds is a lot less similar to Vertigo than Psycho is for sure. Some of the elements I expected, such as a dramatic score, were not there. There was almost only internal diagetic music I think.
    But, there were a couple similarities. Hitchcock still added his typical driving sequences. I guess he liked cars a lot.
    Also, the mystery factor and suspense were definitely still big in The Birds. Even at the end of the film, we still do…

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