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  • Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain

    ★★★½

  • Cry Macho

  • The Last Duel

    ★★

  • Dune

    ★★★½

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  • Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain

    Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain

    ★★★½

    The avg. review here seems to skew towards MEGA FUCKING U TRUSTWORTHY. Just ask yourself if you loved the voice writing Kitchen Confidential or you really liked his little Portugal episode with the fun lil canned fishes before diving in. I loved Bourdain and I enjoyed that this doc felt so honest. Meeting him in his darkness is like going to his house for dinner in the afterlife - nothing left to prove or hide from, and there’s where you’ll…

  • Cry Macho

    Cry Macho

    Nothing productive to say about this one. 

    1 star awarded for Andy Serkis’ shockingly accurate portrayal of Clint Eastwood.

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  • The Godfather

    The Godfather

    ★★★★★

    The Godfather is the golden standard for crime films. Characters are everything here - FFC has uncomplicated faith in complicated protagonists.

    There is much to be said about this film that’s been said already, and by far more qualified reviewers than Ian on Letterboxd. Is this the greatest movie of all time? I’m not as sure as some others are - but it truly stands alone in more ways than one.

  • Knives Out

    Knives Out

    ★★★½

    FOR FANS OF CLUE (the film or the board game). This film capitalizes on the whimsy of a classic Christie tale, but succeeds where most murder mystery romps lose points for their fumbling exposition, structure & pacing