Alexander Donalson

Alexander Donalson

It only takes 90 minutes to learn something new and beautiful about people.

Not reviews, just thoughts

Favorite films

  • Short Term 12
  • Punch-Drunk Love
  • Beginners
  • The Irishman

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  • Sing Sing

    ★★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • I'm Still Here

    ★★★★

  • Cha Cha Real Smooth

    ★★★★½

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  • Sing Sing

    Sing Sing

    ★★★★★

    This is cinema. My favorite of 2024. Ticks every single box of what I want out of the art form and more. The first time I saw this in theaters, I knew absolutely nothing about the film, didn’t even watch the trailer. And yet, on one watch you get the strong sense that there’s a story here, in the production and the making of the piece. That the film was made with genuine care and helmed by an empathetic person…

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★

    So most of the reviews I’m seeing are (rightly I suppose) talking mostly about how fun the film is and how much heart it has and while I appreciate and love those aspects about it I may be reading it a bit differently. Wrapped in a wacky and sentimental lightheartedness led by Pattinsons hilarious and endearing role(s), this film deals with a few interesting and heavy topics. The most standout to me being that this film is about the military…

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  • Borderlands

    Borderlands

    ★★★

    My ma texted us 15 minutes after we left the theater,

    I can’t stop laughing over the robot and shout out to older gals. They still got it.!!!🙋🏼‍♀️

    yeah, the movie kinda sucked but it now holds sentimental value and that is why it will overall live very positively in my head. Art is exclusively subjective and bad art is still art, get fucked movie critics

  • Léon: The Professional

    Léon: The Professional

    ★★

    I’ve been thinking a lot about how telling a film is of its writer/director and how they really have the opportunity to project very personal ideas through the lens of cinema.....and then I had a conversation about the same topic.....and then I watched this movie....and then I felt very off-put and confused.....and then I did some research on Luc Besson....and then I learned that in 1991 he was in an inappropriate relationship with a 15 year old when he was…

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