jordanlrose

jordanlrose

40-something IT consultant and sports fan who moonlights as a movie reviewer

Favorite films

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Aliens
  • Gravity
  • Inception

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  • Nickel Boys

    ★★

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★½

  • Emilia Pérez

    ★★★★

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  • Captain America: Brave New World

    Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★½

    Very mediocre marvel movie with plot lines from movies and TV shows I can barely remember. I feel like Tim Blake Nelson is the villain we never asked for in this film. Oh and CGI DC Cherry Blossoms suck.

  • Emilia Pérez

    Emilia Pérez

    ★★★★

    I enjoyed this movie a lot more than I thought I would. Great direction, wonderful score and one of the better soundtracks of the year. Zoe Saldana is going for it from the start and is the heart and soul of the film. The El Mal sequence kicks so much ass. Give her that Oscar! The overall premise is a bit looney but the execution is well done.

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  • TÁR

    TÁR

    ★★★½

    Todd Field has written and directed three movies with Tár slotting in as his first film in 16 years. This movie is a snapshot of genius and the machine of publicists, lawyers, agents, assistants that are required to sustain that genius. The nucleus of this look at this world of classical music is acclaimed conductor Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett in yet another virtuoso performance). Tár is the first female chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic and Field's film opens with…

  • Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

    Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

    ★★★★½

    Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie put on a true action spectacle with the 7th installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise taking the series to new heights with Dead Reckoning Part One. The sprawling plot flows through several different real-life locations like Abu Dhabi, Rome, Venice, Norway as the IMF agents chase after a key that holds a great amount of power in defeating an artificial intelligence program gone rogue (referred to as The Entity). The aspects of the AI villain…