greshamcooney

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Favorite films

  • Mulholland Drive
  • Dazed and Confused
  • Whiplash
  • Three Colours: Red

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  • The Handmaiden

    ★★★★★

  • Michael Clayton

    ★★★★½

  • Flow

    ★★★★

  • The Heartbreak Kid

    ★★★★

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  • The Handmaiden

    The Handmaiden

    ★★★★★

    An absolute masterpiece. I didn't think it was possible for Park Chan-Wook to top "Oldboy" and the rest of the "Vengeance Trilogy," but here we are.

    Both twists feel well earned, which is really what a film like this requires. The twists not only make narrative sense, but they make sense for the characters.

    PS Having the destruction of smut scene just after the love scene is perfection.

    PPS The evil uncle in this is way up there on the film encyclopedia of terrible extended family members raising orphans.

  • Michael Clayton

    Michael Clayton

    ★★★★½

    Has everything you want in a great legal thriller, and George Clooney has never been better. What a great, subtle score.

    PS My lawyerly protection of attorney-client privilege is mostly not annoyed here.

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  • There Is No Evil

    There Is No Evil

    ★★★★½

    This film shows various aspects of the death penalty in Iran in each of its four stories. It's one of those precious few anthologies where the films really work together to teach you the rules of how to watch them, and the later films make you reexamine the stories that have already been shown. There's nothing but good things to say about this film.

  • Donnie Darko

    Donnie Darko

    ★½

    An extremely pretentious film that just isn't good. It thinks it’s much cleverer than it actually is.