Fifth Sip

Fifth Sip

Just a guy recording my thoughts and monitoring my calorie intake.

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★½

  • Snatch

    ★★★

  • Margin Call

    ★★★★

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★

    Rewarding from start to finish, with subtle performances and a lovely David Holmes score. Blanchett gets the gold, but literally everyone is pulling their weight. Loved the writing too; the dialogue is deeply character-forward and full of play and tension. Been a while since I've seen a 90-minute film work this hard and move this fluidly. Glad to see Soderberg in theaters again.

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★½

    A real stinker, on basically every front.

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  • The Last Black Man in San Francisco

    The Last Black Man in San Francisco

    Fuck this movie. They really turned a whole ass city into a green screen.
    Talbot has no interest in blackness or homelessness as a material experience. Cop cars slow down in my neighborhood just because I'm there. People cross the street to avoid me all the time. There are too many Amazon rings and scared white people and neighborhood watches for Jimmy to be living under the radar in this house. I don't even understand bro's life. He goes to…

  • Executive Order

    Executive Order

    ½

    Where do I start? First, the Brazilian police force is one of the most militarized police forces in the world, so the premise of the story is already suspect. Based on the way it has treated drug dealers, queer people, and indigenous folks, an extradition campaign is pure fantasy. They would just kill people! Second, there’s no sense of geopolitics to this story. Africa is this nebulous place for the melanized to be sent. Angola would not enter into an…

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