Grant B

Grant B

Favorite films

  • Tangled
  • About Time
  • Zombieland
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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  • Palm Springs

    ★★★★★

  • Trap

    ★★★★½

  • Machete

    ★★★½

  • Wicked

    ★★★★½

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  • Palm Springs

    Palm Springs

    ★★★★★

    96

    One of my favorite romcoms of all time. For a movie as seemingly nihilistic (is that why they called him Nyles?) and hopeless as the first half of this appears, Palm Springs is undeniably a story of finding something - or someone - to live for. There’s something about time loop movies that absolutely wrenches at my soul with their ability to so accurately and poignantly prescribe the diagnosis of the human existence. We live, we live, we live again, and all we can do is continue living and hopefully find something that makes it just a little bit better. Or somebody, on that note.

  • Trap

    Trap

    ★★★★½

    86

    Trap is comprised of two movies - a first half that is absolutely perfect, and every second had me completely hooked; and a second half that drags on without any real understanding of when or how it is supposed to end. Bogged down by an underwhelming but not a notably terrible performance from our resident Nepo Baby, the last forty minutes of Trap seems to lose the unique, manic energy that was so crucial to the concert scenes working. Once we…

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  • The Unexpected Race

    The Unexpected Race

    ★½

    26

    Gonna tell my kids this was Avatar

  • The Proposal

    The Proposal

    ★★★½

    70

    If I had a nickel for every romance movie about two people working at the same publishing company that hate each other at the beginning but slowly fall in love despite their absurd number of differences that I’ve watched in the last thirty days, I’d have two nickels, which is too many nickels.

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