Fraser Simons

Fraser Simons

Favorite films

  • The Matrix
  • The Fountain
  • Blade Runner 2049
  • Drive My Car

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  • Serpico

    ★★★½

  • Singin' in the Rain

    ★★★★

  • Adolescence

    ★★★★½

  • God's Crooked Lines

    ★★★★

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  • Adolescence

    Adolescence

    ★★★★½

    Long shots and what some people are calling neo realism, iirc. Fantastic acting, nuanced writing, and a measure of the times. Always good to see art trying to confront toxic masculinity. 

    Strangely, I am a bit worried about this neo realism trend, though. Culture always co-opts and appropriates, dumbs-down anything iconoclastic. You see people believing whatever they want to believe. War movies meant to create empathy for really unfashionable events sometimes work, but mostly become something like tragedy porn, not…

  • God's Crooked Lines

    God's Crooked Lines

    ★★★★

    This was a very fun thriller, much more intelligent than the typical chaff. But it’s also got some problems. It’s set in a time period where mental health, especially of women, was heavily misunderstood—yet it also plays into some of the archetypes established by the hollywoodization of mental health and thriller intersections, which is kind of baffling. Like yeah some of this is problematic and only pseudo the point, but also look at the time period it’s set in… shrug.…

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  • Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

    Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

    ★½

    Reading good reviews of this feels like I’m being gaslit. Stemming from the script, which should be taught in a classroom of how not to write, everything simply did not work. It is so bad I laughed out loud so many times when it was trying to be serious but was incredibly stilted. The actors don’t look like they even believe the lines that are put in their mouths. Nor should they. Compared to the previous movies, this doesn’t even…

  • TÁR

    TÁR

    ★★★★★

    Well, this is the film of the year, for me. I’m not sure anything this year has come close to this, which is perfect in nearly every conceivable way. We are truly in the time of Blanchett, a marvellous actor that apparently somehow just continues to get better. Perhaps her next movie will be even better but this is absolutely a command performance. The script is smart and tense, the themes eternally relevant and hard to do well, but, as…