Jamelle Bouie

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Favorite films

  • Touch of Evil
  • The Manchurian Candidate
  • Serpico
  • The Last Temptation of Christ

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  • The Social Network

    ★★★★½

  • Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told

    ★★★

  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    ★★★★

  • Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja

    ★★★½

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  • The Social Network

    The Social Network

    ★★★★½

    “i need the algorithm!”

  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    ★★★★

    avoided this movie for almost 20 years because i knew it would make me weep uncontrollably and it gives me no pleasure to say i was right

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  • Spider-Man

    Spider-Man

    ★★★★

    i had to beat an old lady with a stick to get these cranberries.

  • The Green Knight

    The Green Knight

    ★★★★½

    Plenty of people smarter than me have written about how the movie embeds the message of the legend — what would we do, what would we sacrifice, to give ourselves a story worth telling — into the narrative itself.

    I just want to say that I was struck by the preoccupation with death throughout the film. Death as an inevitability, death as something to respect, death as an opportunity for life, death as something that — if we are lucky — we…