Travis Whitaker

Travis Whitaker

Favorite films

  • Inception
  • The Prestige
  • Interstellar
  • The Batman

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  • Life

    ★★½

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    ★★★★★

  • Morbius

    ★★

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★½

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  • The Odyssey

    The Odyssey

    ★★★★★

    Just giving five stars now because it's inevitable.

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    Captain America: Brave New World

    ½

    It felt less like a movie than death by a thousand studio notes.

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  • The Prestige

    The Prestige

    ★★★★★

    Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige is like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat, except the rabbit’s a little grumpy and the hat’s rigged with Victorian-era Tesla coils. The film kicks off with that delicious tingle of expecting a trick—will it dazzle us, will we buy the illusion?—and we’re all suckers, hoping for a sprinkle of magic to whisk us away from our boring, logical lives. But Nolan, the sly dog, flips the script: our innocent craving for wonder…

  • The Batman

    The Batman

    ★★★★★

    As far as Nolan rip-offs go, this is a good one. It wants desperately to not be Nolan but it's Nolan. When you try to make a serious Batman movie, your Nolan love cannot be hidden. Also the city looks like Batman Begins.

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