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Favorite films

  • Princess Mononoke
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  • Before Midnight

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  • Opus

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Lincoln

    ★★★★★

  • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    ★★★★

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  • Opus

    Opus

    Easily the worst movie I’ve ever stayed up late on a week night to see in a theater this year so far. I doubt it’ll be topped.

    Completely nonsensical from bottom to top - it’s “gotcha” moment at the end is fine, but nothing in between the beginning and the very end matter at all. 

    There’s an idea in there somewhere, but it’s all dialed so far back that nothing lands. If you want to say something with such a tired premise, you need to get a megaphone, less you get washed away in the noise.

  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★

    Soderbergh delivers a taught, if a little tame, spy mystery about a group of the hottest people who could possibly work in a British spy agency.

    It’s the best Poirot style mystery thriller this side of A Haunting in Venice. Fassbinder should have worn the mustache.

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  • The Straight Story

    The Straight Story

    ★★★★★

    What a kind, gentle, lovely film. Sad, hopeful, warm, and genuine in all the ways that David Lynch has always had lingering under his tendencies that people depict as “weird,” or otherwise. 

    I loved it.

  • One of Them Days

    One of Them Days

    ★★★½

    Maybe not as funny as you’d hope from the zaniness of the premise and structure promise, but Keke Palmer is a generational talent and SZA mostly holds her own against her as an actress. 

    Maybe the best use of Chekov’s Gun I’ve seen in a minute.

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