Ned Ryerson

Ned Ryerson

Favorite films

  • The Passenger
  • Hiroshima Mon Amour
  • La Belle Noiseuse
  • Phantom Thread

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  • The Banshees of Inisherin

    ★★★½

  • We Own This City

    ★★★★

  • The Tourist

    ★★★½

  • Nightmare Alley

    ★★★★

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  • On the Rocks

    On the Rocks

    ★★½

    45

    Oof. It's as if Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop was a production company and churned out a drab mix of screwball comedy and Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage abridged (i.e. dumbed down) for the chai latte and Pinterest crowd. Murray coasts on auto-pilot, and while they do their best, the cringe-level of the domestic scenes between Jones and Wayans is pretty high up there. Some magic hour shots do stick, but I'm afraid this is the least compelling Coppola I've seen, and it ain't close. Something got lost in translation.

  • The Tax Collector

    The Tax Collector

    ★½

    27

    Embarrassing.

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  • Opening Night

    Opening Night

    ★★★★

    76

    Fuck Birdman.

  • The Childhood of a Leader

    The Childhood of a Leader

    ★★★

    60

    According to Wikipedia: "In 2015, Corbet said that the script of the film was inspired by Robert Bresson's Mouchette, Maurice Pialat's Under the Sun of Satan, Ermanno Olmi's The Tree of Wooden Clogs, Carl Theodor Dreyer's Day of Wrath, and Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon."

    The movie's fine. But dude. Chill.