Dakota Shively

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Favorite films

  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

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  • Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

    ★★★½

  • SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night

    ★★★½

  • Whiplash

    ★★★★

  • Arrival

    ★★★★½

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  • The Beatles: Get Back

    The Beatles: Get Back

    ★★★★★

    Definitely more digestible for the dedicated Beatles fan over a casual viewer, but if you can find entertainment in watching a talented group of music pioneers do their work then you are in for a real treat. Peter Jackson and the original film crew did a tremendous job showcasing the beginning of the end for this group, as well as one of the most iconic performances in music history!

  • Watchmen

    Watchmen

    ★★½

    This movie is good for about the first hour and a half. It portrays the first six issues pretty much beat for beat, even if shallowly. The slow build-up is just as chaotic and chilling as the novel, and performances by most of the cast are strong. The last hour though just completely rushes through the source material and is a hallow representation of everything groundbreaking that it conceived. On top of Zak Snyder’s overrated and washed-out cinematography (the crystal castle on Mars is awful), even a middling review is a little generous.