DevinTRivers

DevinTRivers

Favorite films

  • Her
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Sicario
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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  • The Green Knight

    ★★★★½

  • 1917

    ★★★

  • Knives Out

    ★★★½

  • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    ½

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  • The Green Knight

    The Green Knight

    ★★★★½

    Having read the Epic of Gilgamesh coincidentally some days before watching The Green Night (not to mention my studies at college with a degree in history) this film ticked all the right boxes. Like our movie's protagonist, The Epic of Gilgamesh - which is, quite literally, humanity's first hero narrative - centers around a mortal man's quest to seek out honor, fame, and wisdom instead discovers life's fortunate/unfortunate truth: divine apathy. Anyways, I don't wanna write an essay, just watch…

  • Knives Out

    Knives Out

    ★★★½

    A ridiculous amount of fun, the film does not take itself too seriously. The characters are all fun to watch, especially in scenes where certain individual's personalities clash with each other.

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  • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    ½

    I honestly hate that I can't describe my feelings on this movie without people informing me that I went into this film with a bias of wanting to hate the film. I did not, I hate this film, and I feel this way not because I was hoping for other events to take place; I hate it because it's a spit in the face to fans and a dumb downed actionless piece of meaningless nothing.

  • Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

    Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

    ★★★★

    Like all Tarantino films, the dialogue is superb. There wasn't a single instance of forced conversations/monologues that try to force a narrative or push a plot point, instead everything came about naturally.

    The movie (and again, like many Tarantino films) portrays the world in such vibrancy and spectacle to suck you into the hippie era of Los Angeles. The attention to detail when pinning down the look of 1960s Los Angeles made me appreciate the film all the more (the…