Jason Henson

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Really putting that Criterion Channel subscription to good use.

The ratings really don’t mean much.

Favorite films

  • The Conversation
  • The Battle of Algiers
  • Clueless
  • Do the Right Thing

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  • A Face in the Crowd

    ★★★★★

  • Me and You and Everyone We Know

    ★★★★½

  • Once Upon a Time in the West

    ★★★★½

  • Almost Famous

    ★★★★½

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  • A Face in the Crowd

    A Face in the Crowd

    ★★★★★

    It's practically cliché now to say that this movie is hauntingly relevant today, so instead I'll just say that the United States has always had an affinity for and skepticism of populists, always simultaneous. What I haven't really seen remarked upon much is that both director Elia Kazan and writer Budd Schulberg unrepentantly named names at Joseph McCarthy's HUAC hearings; Rhodes, despite being inspired by Billy Graham and Huey Long, is a clear analog for McCarthy as well. I'm not…

  • Me and You and Everyone We Know

    Me and You and Everyone We Know

    ★★★★½

    "Soup won't be computerized."
    "Why not?"
    "It's a liquid."

    What I think makes this film special is how willing it is to sit with the uncomfortable. I've seen the film talked about in terms of how the Internet transformed the way we interact with one another, but I think it's suggesting something more, well, uncomfortable: we were never actually "good" at communicating or connecting, and new technologies simply add new dimensions for us to awkwardly grasp at each other in. It's definitely among the best of the hyperlink films of the mid-2000s. Miranda July, make more movies please!

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  • Trap

    Trap

    ★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • I'm Still Here

    I'm Still Here

    ★★★★★

    I honestly don't even know where to begin this, so I'll start with the beginning of the film. The most subtly successful thing this film does is let us hang out with the Pavia family for a significant chunk of the film before the inciting incident occurs. They are clearly a family of means - they live in a beachfront house in Rio, after all, and bought property to build a new house outside the city. But wealth does not…

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