joe MacEwan-Hyde

joe MacEwan-Hyde

Favorite films

  • Blade Runner
  • Stalker
  • Tokyo Story
  • Dazed and Confused

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  • Brass Eye

    ★★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • Conclave

    ★★★★

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★½

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  • Saltburn

    Saltburn

    ★★★½

    Saltburn is a film that divides the opinion of many and I choose to sit somewhere in the middle. On the one hand it's an extremely fun watch, visually appealing, funny at times and disturbing at others, but on the other hand the script is patchy, the plot is quite weak with a pretty obvious final twist and a lot of the most shocking scenes feel quite forced like they're trying too hard to be shocking.
    So the question is,…

  • Citizen Kane

    Citizen Kane

    ★★★★★

    As the first film ever made I think it's hard to understate the influence of citizen kane on the history of cinema. Inventing such things as comedy, the normal shot and plot.
    The opening scene is at the very beggining of the movie and the second scene follows quickly after. Overall a very good film

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  • The Black Phone

    The Black Phone

    ★★★

    I cried and the black phone

  • Blade Runner

    Blade Runner

    ★★★★★

    With a 30-million-dollar budget Scott manages to create an entire world within 117 minutes. He does this with his realistic and overcrowded sets making the future Los Angeles feel both alien but not out of the realms of possibility.

    The films pacing is often the main area for criticism, and I actually agree that the film is slow paced, but a slow pacing is not always a bad thing. In fact I think that the slow pacing, in terms of…