Eggy Benedict

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Top 4 is favorite films, current obsessions, seasonal or themed in some other way, or just a vibe I’m feeling.

Favorite films

  • Red Rooms
  • Enough Said
  • Training Day
  • Inherent Vice

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★★½

  • No Country for Old Men

    ★★★★★

  • Widows

    ★★★★½

  • The People's Joker

    ★★★★

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★½

    I am once again feeling deeply grateful for Steven Soderbergh’s artistic impulses and prolific output. This is a slick and sexy spy-vs-spy procedural featuring genuine movie star performances and I loved every second. There’s economy here, as always with late-period Sody, and the lack of fidelity to blockbuster scale and hunor allows him to thrill with precision and a whodunit that hums with actual danger and intrigue. Brilliant stuff. Long live Steven Soderbergh.

  • No Country for Old Men

    No Country for Old Men

    ★★★★★

    Had a crisis during the middle of this when I realized it came out 18 years ago. I saw this in a double feature with a few friends fall of my freshman year of college. We went to the Regal Mashpee Commons 6 and saw Enchanted around seven and then drove a couple miles to see this at the late show at the Nickelodeon Cinema, which was an arthouse Regal theater with 5 screens in my hometown Falmouth. It was…

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  • Burn After Reading

    Burn After Reading

    ★★★★★

    When I was 12 I watched Billy Madison a couple times a week and this is becoming my adult version of that

  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain

    ★★★★½

    When I was 13 years old, my cousin Christen had just graduated high school and needed a change of scenery, so she moved across country to come to live in my town with another family member. I had always looked up to her because she shared my love of indie movies and punk rock and I felt she understood me in a way my other cousins didn’t, partially because we were among the few in my family whose parents were…