Benedict Hutchinson

Benedict Hutchinson

Favorite films

  • Through a Glass Darkly
  • Paris, Texas
  • The Green Ray
  • Three Colours: Red

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  • Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown

  • The Island of Dr. Moreau

    ★★½

  • Amores Perros

    ★★★★½

  • Blow Out

    ★★★★

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  • Amores Perros

    Amores Perros

    ★★★★½

    Perhaps with more time to think this one over the rating will go up, or perhaps it will go down. I have only just this minute finished watching it so thoughts are fresh. Part one is so good that during the other two parts I was mostly just missing part one and hoping to return to that story. It felt like the rest of the film, while good, paled in comparison to the intensity and emotion and direction of the…

  • Mississippi Burning

    Mississippi Burning

    ★★★★

    Rip Gene Hackman

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  • Longlegs

    Longlegs

    ★★★½

    I thought it was going to be brave and keep that 4:3 aspect ratio for the whole film, but alas. However, this was really quite scary and I'm glad. I feel the serial killer genre was pretty much mastered with Se7en so it was nice that this took a slightly different direction in the end, because at first I thought it was just going to be another film that does what Se7en did but not as well. Of course it…

  • There Will Be Blood

    There Will Be Blood

    ★★★★★

    the final scene took this to five.

    (greed, power, envy; it seeps into every nook like oil. It may spread slowly, but it will stain all it touches black, and, uncontrolled, it will keep trickling and trickling, covering an ever wider surface, seeping deeper into the cracks. Family, friendship, faith - all will be marred. As hard as one tries, as far as one runs, noone, and nothing, will stay clean of it forever. Its reach is limitless. It corrupts.…

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