Ross Macphee

Ross Macphee

Favorite films

  • La La Land
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • Howl's Moving Castle
  • About Time

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★½

  • Gladiator II

    ★★★★½

  • The Fall Guy

    ★★★½

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★

    I enjoyed this through some gritted teeth. Unfortunately the second act is super slow and at times point blank boring and make ruffalo’s super villain becomes stale as the story goes on. The beginning and end I both throughly enjoyed

  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain

    ★★★½

    I really enjoyed how Eisenberg was able to be so emotional with this movie without actually portraying his emotions very much. He created a very real bond between himself and Caulkin and I honestly felt every bit of envy and hatred and love for Caulkins character. There was a lot of emotional undertones and personal points to be made in this film but to do so on a journey through Jewish Poland history especially involving the holocaust felt unnecessary. It…

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  • Videodrome

    Videodrome

    ★★★★★

    Incredible. My first Cronenberg and certainly not my last. This 90 minute films does so much not only as its own entity but for the wider world of cinema. Deep diving into humanity’s obsession with sex, violence and death. How we view it, how we create it and how we share it. Not only does it do that though it forces the viewer into looking at themselves, into how easily we are persuaded from things on screen. 

    The body horror…

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

    The Grand Budapest Hotel

    ★★★★★

    Wes Anderson’s magnum opus. I’ve been completely blown away by the sheer beauty and love that this film excretes from every single shot and every line. A complete thrill to watch. 

    The acting is sensational. Gustave and Zero’s relationship is perfect and they both play their parts brilliantly. Adrian Brodie was a great villain and Willem Dafoe was a genuinely terrifying presence on the screen. To go through each actor would take a large chunk of this with me just…

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