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Favorite films

  • Kinds of Kindness
  • The Green Knight
  • The Spook Who Sat by the Door
  • The Battle of Chile: Part I

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★½

  • Novocaine

    ★★★½

  • Den of Thieves

    ★★★½

  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier

    ★★★½

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★½

    You ever boof an electric eel?

    This movie is all over the place and I loved every minute. It's hard to place a central topic but if I had to choose I'd say it's weird Sci-fi satire but also deeply sincere about being human in the very inhuman circumstances we all find ourselves in, in particular the inhumanity in the behavior of elites. Pattinson deserves an oscar for what he's doing with this.

    Bong Joon Ho continues his bizarre eclectic…

  • Novocaine

    Novocaine

    ★★★½

    He went full Rexsplode at the end.

    Saw at Alamo draft house wall street.

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  • The Zone of Interest

    The Zone of Interest

    ★★★★★

    Anti-banality of evil (despite promotional comments made by the director, I think there's some distinction between how people are using the term and its original meaning during the Eichmann trial) is how I would describe this film.

    Recognizable features of an externally “banal” life — career ambitions, marital disagreement, home building, raising children, dealing with in-laws — coexist and with and perpetuate very direct evil. These people were not disaffected bureaucrats, they were conscious fascists whose evil infected every aspect…

  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★★★½

    Pretty good, choosing to interpret the movie as the death of the old left heralding a Bob Dylan liberalism because otherwise why make up so many events that didn't happen. This Dylan should have kept hanging with Suze and going to Brecht plays.

    Desperately need a Pete Seeger biopic that will never come. Missed opportunity not playing the private property line from this land is your land.

    Jimmy Carter died while I was in the theater. Seen at Plano cinemark.

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