Joe Berkowitz

Joe Berkowitz

Favorite films

  • Blade Runner
  • Do the Right Thing
  • Something Wild
  • Trainspotting

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  • Phantom Thread

    ★★★★½

  • Ted

    ★★★½

  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

    ★★★★½

  • The Princess Bride

    ★★★★★

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  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

    ★★★★½

    Totally forgot Indiana Jones and his dad are canonically eskimo brothers.

  • The Thin Red Line

    The Thin Red Line

    ★★★★½

    Imagine being a working male actor in 1999 and not getting cast in this movie. Embarrassing.

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  • Scream VI

    Scream VI

    ★★★

    Not saying it *was* made for this reason but if I was gonna make a movie to promote the idea that getting stabbed in the stomach is not that big a deal, I would make Scream VI.

    This is the first Scream movie where I correctly guessed the killer, and the first one where the killer explicitly references that it's kind of obvious. Probably not a coincidence. Usually, part of the fun of these movies is rewatching and seeing clues…

  • Fight Club

    Fight Club

    ★★★★½

    The satire of this movie hits so much harder 22 years later. But keeping in mind what the late-90s were like, it makes sense that so many dudes took it purely at face value and made Fight Club some kind of soft manifesto. I do wonder how much of the style and slickness here is commentary about the presentation of consumerism, and how much is just Fincherian gloss on the material. Ultimately, I would rather this movie didn't exist than…

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