jkylewood

jkylewood

Favorite films

  • Se7en
  • The Fountain
  • Black Swan
  • Donnie Darko

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  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★★½

  • Aftersun

    ★★★★

  • We Live in Time

    ★★★★

  • Deadpool & Wolverine

    ★★★½

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  • Captain America: Brave New World

    Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★★½

    Not the best Marvel movie and not the worst. After hearing of reshoots and my initial concerns that fitting the Leader, Red Hulk, and the Serpent Society into one movie would be a mess, I was pleasantly surprised. The depiction of Ross by Ford and the movement from scene to scene and theater to theater was a bit clunky at times likely due to reshoots. Sam’s role as the new Cap was captured well by Mackie and Torres is a…

  • Aftersun

    Aftersun

    ★★★★

    Movies find you…and this one sat on my watchlist until tonight. We don’t have movies with heart like this and the bravery to make the viewer just that, a viewer to people’s stories. Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio carry this movie. I don’t know that Charlotte Wells writing and directing contributes anything new aside from the simplicity to she allows to be shown. Calum will lie in my memory as another friend in cinema in which I see myself like Largeman, Will, Todd Anderson, and Drew Baylor.

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  • Deadpool & Wolverine

    Deadpool & Wolverine

    ★★★½

    This movie delivers the spectacle that you would imagine. There are lots of crotch jokes, fight scenes, montages, and cameos. I felt it needed to move the direction of Logan a smidge to provide Jackman an opportunity to show his chops and give the movie a better balance between the two characters. I also don’t see how this truly moved the Fox franchises toward the MCU which I only expected because Feige seemed to portray is that way. I’d give it a 3.75 if I could.

  • Asteroid City

    Asteroid City

    ★★★½

    Wes Anderson isn’t a director, writer, or producer. He’s an artist with a different view of reality. His stories aren’t films but windows into a parallel universe that moves a little slower, embraces curiosity, and casts off the whiz bang special effects of its peers. Each time your peak into his universe leaves you a little unsettled and quizzical, but satisfied that you had the experience- something unique and still familiar if you’ve experienced it before. Asteroid City may not be his funniest, most endearing, or most insightful outing, but it was another interest peak into that universe.

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