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Favorite films

  • Ocean's Twelve
  • Yi Yi
  • Girlfriends
  • Michael Clayton

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  • The Insider

    ★★★★½

  • The Electric State

    ★½

  • Yannick

    ★★★½

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★★

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  • Moneyball

    Moneyball

    ★★★★★

    The systems aren’t the only systems. New ideas aren’t always right but they’re always new. You can use ego without having one. Prove yourself right, not other people wrong. What people can’t do aren’t weaknesses. Celebrate your effort. You don’t have to change the world, just make dents in it. Use analysis, consider numbers, rely on statistics, embrace the objective, and then make your final decision based on the people you love.

  • The Do-Over

    The Do-Over

    ½

    psychotic. what could only be the totemic collective work of a self-diluting, rage-driven hive mind dedicated to dismantling the very notion and eventual memory of goodness piece by piece until all that’s left is hatred for its own sake sent infinitely inward like a black hole of wretched evil.

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  • The Insider

    The Insider

    ★★★★½

    lots of pointing and yelling

  • The Electric State

    The Electric State

    ★½

    didn’t love

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  • The Good, The Bad, The Hungry

    The Good, The Bad, The Hungry

    ★★★½

    A man who built an empire on nationalism and racism and knows it. A second man who built a career benefiting from it and doesn’t know it. A third man who likes to eat and misses his mom.

    Fuck Joey Chestnut.

    Triple fuck George Shea.

  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★★

    feels as good a work as any for me to ultimately write a whole thing about Soderbergh, check back in a day or two / thoughts will be added and taken away / I’m having a moment here / spoilers…

    I have to imagine Steven Soderbergh sees the thread connecting Black Bag and Ocean’s Twelve. And I have to imagine he was thrilled to keep that thread as taut and direct as he could.

    The most obvious element could be…