Mickey 17 is an overstuffed but very entertaining sci-fi parable of exploitation from Oscar-winner Bong Joon Ho, and it is the highly-anticipated follow-up to the brilliant Parasite. The film is brash, with its big-budget setpieces and effects-heavy camerawork, some fascinating world-building, and a wonderfully twisted premise.
Mickey is a small-time loser who gets in debt to a cartoon villain loan shark with a penchant for murdering his debtors and filming the torture. To escape, he impulsively joins a group of…
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Spies Like Us 1985
Spies Like Us, an ostensible comedy, wasn't too funny in its initial release context, and to watch it today is to marvel at the ephemeral nature of humor--the film has aged badly and hits differently in 2025. Directed by John Landis and cowritten by co-star Dan Aykroyd, it should have been funnier. Let's be honest--it should have been funny at all. I only laughed weakly twice. Aykroyd & John Belushi had palpable onscreen chemistry and a sharper satirical eye in The…
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Nowhere Boy 2009
I am the perfect audience member for this film. A lifelong Beatles fan, I have spent years absorbing trivia and minutiae, reading biographies and critical analysis, and love anything about the Fab Four with a purely subjective bias. So I was sucked into the story of Nowhere Boy, the slightly dramatized biopic of John Lennon's adolescent and teen years, from 1955 to about 60, although the bulk of the plot takes place in the short window of time during which…
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Chinatown 1974
In the 40 years since it was released, Chinatown has become a part of the cinematic pantheon, and deservedly so. The film earns my respect and admiration because it is so layered and fraught with meaning and interpretation, so expertly executed without drawing attention to its artistry, and works as both an artistic statement and entertainment.
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