Jonathan

Jonathan

Favorite films

  • City Lights
  • Notorious
  • Kes
  • We Are the Best!

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  • Manhattan

    ★★½

  • Fitzcarraldo

    ★★★★½

  • The Milk of Sorrow

    ★★★½

  • Kes

    ★★★★½

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  • Manhattan

    Manhattan

    ★★½

    If it wasn’t so well shot, it would be unwatchable. It captures a certain strand of Manhattan snobbery brilliantly, but I just can’t bring myself to care for any of these characters. Still, doesn’t it just look and sound wonderful?

  • Man on the Moon

    Man on the Moon

    ★★½

    Jim Carrey plays Jim Carrey playing Andy Kaufman. Your enjoyment probably swings on whether you find the man drop dead hilarious or excruciatingly irritating. I can’t imagine anyone falls in the middle.

  • Two Weeks Notice

    Two Weeks Notice

    ★★

    There’s potential but it really just becomes a slog. Bullock’s character needs to be spikier and angrier, Grant’s needs to be less of a clown. As it is, it’s just very difficult to get invested in anything that’s going on here.

  • Summer Holiday

    Summer Holiday

    ★★★

    An obviously ridiculous storyline, taking a bunch of swashbuckling Brits (and Cliff Richard) on a red London bus through one stereotypical European land after another. The film is farcical but fun, a timewarp into what passed for comedy in 1960s Britain.

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