Derrick Jackson-Polek

Derrick Jackson-Polek

Favorite films

  • Jaws
  • Annihilation
  • The Trip to Bountiful
  • Something Wild

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  • One of Them Days

    ★★★

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★

  • Blow-Up

    ★★

  • Rocketman

    ★★★★★

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  • One of Them Days

    One of Them Days

    ★★★

    Not as funny as I was hoping based on Letterboxd and a 94% RT score. Loved Keke! On the fence about SZA. But for me, Big-Bootie Bernice and Pay Day Loan chick stole the show!

  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain

    ★★★

    I get that Benji was supposed to be insufferable. Mission accomplished. Kieran Culkin did a great job because I wanted to strangle him from the very fist scene. But there is no universe where all the other members of the tour group would have found this character charming. I felt the movie was gaslighting me into believing this would be true. Jesse Eisenberg's character and the older man were the only two people who reacted to Benji like almost anyone…

  • Blow-Up

    Blow-Up

    ★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Rocketman

    Rocketman

    ★★★★★

    LOVED IT! Rocketman is the movie that Bohemian Rhapsody didn’t have the courage to be: audacious, risky, innovative, fantastical, R-rated, and unabashedly queer.
    The trailer gave me no indication of what this movie was. I wasn’t even sure if it was a biopic. Turns out it is, but also an actual musical! This is like a film adaptation of a Broadway “jukebox” musical based on Elton John’s life, but written directly for the screen. And it’s better than any film…