John Eric Gritland

John Eric Gritland

Favorite films

  • Green Room
  • Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie
  • Beats
  • West Side Story

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • Sing Sing

    ★★★★

  • Flow

    ★★★½

  • Nickel Boys

    ★★★★½

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★½

    Cute and fun with a very overt political edge. Sometimes does feel like bit of a mallet but being unsubtle is often a good idea these days. More of a movie of ideas than charecters. Pattison does good work and everyone else is hamming it up like they are in a B movie from the 80s in a good way. Do understand his desire to maybe work with Alien based on this very coded that way already.

  • Sing Sing

    Sing Sing

    ★★★★

    This builds on itsefl slowly, the start is slow but by the end the feelings I had were so strong. The preformances are all great and the casting is inherently very special I did not know about it going in. Really wish Divine Eyes got a supporting nom for this one he shines in this and the role is very complex. The theme of escape and imprisonment really carried through a lot of todays films and this was a good capper for the Oscars marathon.

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  • Moriarty the Patriot

    Moriarty the Patriot

    ★★★½

    When the gang of urchins said death to the nobility and the ruling classes I felt that.

  • A Taste of Hunger

    A Taste of Hunger

    ★★★½

    This is one of those films that flirts with greatness but does not quite reach it. There could have been a 5-star film here but the way it coheres together feels weaker than the parts it is made of. The interaction between food and sexuality is often deeply sexy in this and works as the central metaphor. The performances are similarly top tier with both Katrine Greis-Rosenthal and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau bringing their all. It is in the narrative construction and…

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