Ryan Michero

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I like to movie it, movie it

Favorite films

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • House
  • Twin Peaks: The Return
  • Apocalypse Now

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Suspiria

    ★★★★

  • To Live

    ★★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★

    Folks, this is a great couples date night movie, go see it. Soderbergh and Koepp do not waste any time in delivering a taut, sexy marital spy thriller. And the cast is uniformly excellent. Just everybody in front of and behind the camera so good at what they're doing and is absolutely cooking. Very much in the vein of Soderbergh's Out of Sight and Ocean's Eleven, scenes bathed in warm light with a big fuzzy bloom on the highlights, propulsive spy movie jazz setting the tone and tempo. Also a very London movie--which is as a former Londoner a big plus for me.

  • Suspiria

    Suspiria

    ★★★★

    A deeply strange, uncanny, and mysterious film, and this kind of thing is very much my jam. I love a horror film that leans on stylish vibes and doesn't feel the need to overexplain everything--like a real nightmare, the lack of explanation makes it that much more unsettling. But instead of the phantasmagorical Technicolor nightmare of Argento's version, Guadagnino gives us something much more stark and brutalist. Suzy's recurring nightmare montages are both beautiful and scary. The scene of Olga…

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  • Inside Out 2

    Inside Out 2

    ★★★★★

    Second time seeing it, now in the lovely Steve Jobs Theater with excellent sound. And yeah. Funny, beautiful, clever, moving--great. I'm biased because I busted my ass on it, but judging from the laughs and the sniffing and wiping of eyes from the people who hadn't seen any of it yet, it's a big winner.

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★½

    I love Bong Joon Ho and think he's a visionary filmmaking genius, which is why it pains me to say that this didn't live up to my hopes and expectations. I'd have to rank it behind both Okja (the most similar piece in his filmography) and Snowpiercer.

    That's not to say that there's isn't a lot that's really great here, sadly much of it revealed in the trailer (the marketing team really knew how to put this movie's best foot…