Shawn Murray

Shawn Murray

Favorite films

  • Ocean's Twelve
  • No Country for Old Men
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

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  • I'm Still Here

  • Mickey 17

  • The Brutalist

  • Snack Shack

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  • I'm Still Here

    I'm Still Here

    Often, when we hear stories of tragedy and misfortune such as this one, we relegate the figures in those stories to just that—figures. Numbers. Pieces. Elements of a story. What makes I’m Still Here stick with me is that it does what’s most important in depicting stories like these: it reminds you that there are people at the heart of these stories—beautiful, flawed, loving people who weren’t just details in story of injustice, but humans who had their lives forever…

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    I don’t connect with Bong Joon Ho’s English-language work nearly as much, but I found this to be fun. I think the humor just comes across a little more over-written and heavy-handed when he works in English, but he gets actors to go for it like few others can which I appreciate. I’d like to watch it again.

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  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit

    Who Framed Roger Rabbit

    ★★★★

    I haven't seen this movie in full in at least 15 years. This, like the many Golden Age cartoons it references and homages seems like it was both an incredible joy to make while being an unbelievable amount of work. I've always felt like writing (whatever that means considering I'm sure much of the "writing" is done by the animators) for Tom and Jerry or Looney Tunes, is a comedy writer's dream because it's an exercise in filling the runtime…

  • Barbarian

    Barbarian

    Wish everyone wasn’t like “nobody say a fucking word about this bonkers movie to anyone or else” because it’s good as hell but I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop and it never did because this movie isn’t really *that* out there as far as contemporary horror goes. Nevertheless, it rules. Outstanding cinematography, most of all. Excellent camera moves.