Grant Wagner

Grant Wagner

Favorite films

  • High and Low
  • Down by Law
  • 8½
  • Close-Up

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  • No Other Land

    ★★★★★

  • The Decline of Western Civilization

    ★★½

  • Shockproof

    ★★★

  • Anora

    ★★★★

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  • No Other Land

    No Other Land

    ★★★★★

    Incredible, important film politically but also holds up from a filmmaking perspective. Criminal that there is no distribution for it in the US.

    Lucky to catch it at a local indie. Was a bit surprised, however, that the discussion that followed was basically an irl internet comment section. Not sure how the otherwise well meaning liberals in the room were still able to say "but what about October 7?" after watching homes we've spent the last 90 minutes inside of…

  • Shockproof

    Shockproof

    ★★★

    Was prepared to give this half a star after the completely boring and vaguely misogynistic hour-long exposition. The last 20 minutes however was completely great and that should (and could) have been the entire movie.

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  • The Exterminating Angel

    The Exterminating Angel

    ★★★★½

    Name a more perfect movie for a week that saw the ascendancy of American fascism and the death of David Lynch. I'll wait.

  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★

    Like a hotter younger self, a few great scenes emerged at the last minute from a truly terrible movie. Unfortunately, some grade A camp and decent body horror doesn't make up for what felt like a bloated Black Mirror episode

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