Jordan Parker

Jordan Parker

Favorite films

  • Fight Club
  • Jaws
  • Casablanca
  • Mystic River

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  • 17 Again

    ★★★½

  • Waitress

    ★★★½

  • Nerve

    ★★★

  • Wimbledon

    ★★★½

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  • Woman of the Hour

    Woman of the Hour

    ★★★

    There’s something intensely disquieting about Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut. 

    She also serves as the star here in a stranger-than-fiction film that’s chalk full of dread.

    She stars as Sheryl, a woman who goes on The Dating Game in the 1970s. She — and everyone else — is unwitting that one of the three male contestants is an infamous serial killer.

    Kendrick gives one of her best performances ever, and young Daniel Zovatto (who stunned in shortlived HBO series Here and…

  • Absolution

    Absolution

    ★★½

    There’s nothing more consistent than a Liam Neeson actioner — Even if they’re only good for some mild entertainment.

    There’s no active movie star more bankable and fun to watch right now in the genre, and the Oscar nominee — now in his 70s — provides more grit to these by-the-numbers endeavours than they sometimes deserve.

    Absolution is a film that trods familiar territory. It follows Neeson’s gangster who’s past his prime. He develops a condition that causes memory loss…

  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain

    ★★★★

    Awards-season favourite A Real Pain may not have the gravitas of Emilia Perez or the night of Dune II. But this relatively quiet buddy drama makes use of its two leads perfectly.

    Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin star as polar opposite cousins who head on a trip through Poland to see where their grandmother laid down roots.

    The two Jewish descendants must confront their historical pasts in a broader context as well as the issues that remain between them.

    Eisenberg…

  • Tombstone

    Tombstone

    ★★★½

    Tombstone isn’t as good as Clint Eastwood westerns, but boy, does it ever boast some wonderful performances.

    George P. Cosmatos’ film wasn’t some Oscar-worthy endeavour, but it was endlessly entertaining and a pure blockbuster in a dying genre.

    It follows the exploits of Wyatt Earp, his brothers and his friend Doc Holliday as they try to bring order to a lawless town in the 1890s.

    Kurt Russell, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe and Michael Biehn are all great. But…

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