JJ Pollack

JJ Pollack

Favorite films

  • The Apartment
  • Network
  • All That Jazz
  • Dazed and Confused

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  • Electric Dreams

    ★½

  • One of Them Days

    ★★½

  • The Monkey

    ★★

  • PlayTime

    ★★★½

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  • Electric Dreams

    Electric Dreams

    ★½

    Stupid, but entertainingly so. So many ridiculous montages but, given the lack of them in the modern landscape, it was a nice waltz down memory lane. Also the notion of thinking pitch-perfect synth strings was the peak musical achievement of humanity is charmingly hilarious.

    Interesting choice to hide the only noteworthy/non-terrible quality of the lead (ie, his dreamy Daniel Craig-esque eyes) behind glasses. But hey, how else would we know he's a humungous nerd, amirightfellas??!?

    The lighting was weirdly beautiful.…

  • One of Them Days

    One of Them Days

    ★★½

    Had some solid laughs but the script definitely could've used another pass or two, as a fair number of moments just felt lazy. Keke Palmer is being criminally underused, I'd like to see her cast in every movie from here on out. Seriously even if it doesn't make sense, just cast her. Keke Thanos, Keke Bob Dylan, Keke Jurassic Park T-Rex. Fuck it why not.

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  • Fun with Dick and Jane

    Fun with Dick and Jane

    ★★★★

    severely underrated

  • The Substance

    The Substance

    So...you're just gonna take the first draft of a Cronenberg script and turn it into a porno?

    The Substance somehow surpasses Promising Young Woman for most sophomoric social messaging, but unlike that film, doesn't even attempt to have real characters or a narrative of any kind. And before some shmohawk responds with I T S N O T M E A N T T O B E R E A L I S T I C

    No shit. But there's…

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