jonkiefner

jonkiefner

Favorite films

  • Drive My Car
  • Past Lives
  • Chinatown
  • The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

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  • A Complete Unknown

    ★★★★

  • 20th Century Women

    ★★★½

  • Grave of the Fireflies

    ★★★★★

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

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  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★★★★

    Bobby never deserved Pete or Joan, but somehow that’s okay because nobody deserved Woodie.

  • 20th Century Women

    20th Century Women

    ★★★½

    Most of the time I love Mike Mills. Voice over is not dead thank god. Annette Bening rips. I need an invite to their house for dinner but mostly just for her, and I want her curiosity coupled with her measured personality. Flowers for that character. 

    Wish I had seen it in its context a bit more. Maybe Greta’s level and work after this or general social commentary on what her character is trying to say makes this slice a…

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  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain

    ★★★★

    Oh snap why are my two personalities hanging out? Are they a fuckin loser?

  • Gladiator II

    Gladiator II

    ★★★½

    A love letter from Ridley Scott to the genre (Ridley Scott-ism).

    Also, good to see the Paul-Tyson fight get a lil revisionist history retell. Much better that way.