Justin L

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Not a loser, anymore. 

Like the last time & the time before.

Favorite films

  • Law of Desire
  • Hard Truths
  • Drive My Car
  • Summer Hours

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  • Kimi

    ★★★½

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★★

  • Eephus

    ★★★★

  • Muse

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  • When Harry Met Sally...

    When Harry Met Sally...

    ★★★★½

    It never mattered if men and women could be friends! It was two people gaslighting each other until they they were mature and lonely enough to accept one another for who they were rather than some idealized version of Harry and/or Sally. Settle baby, settle!🖤🖤🖤🖤

  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★★

    “I forgot to tell you the name of the game…”

    Spy craft masterpiece. A good espionage thriller doesn’t care about making you believe in the political machinations of global superpowers — it’s about who’s fucking who at the office and if your wife saw a movie without telling you.

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  • Eephus

    Eephus

    ★★★★

    Buds, suds, bellies, and the meditative calm of a crisp 90’s New England fall day.

    Life sucks, making and maintaining friendships is hard but not if you get to crush a couple racks of gansett and rag on the other team. 🖤🍁

    I’m from a small town in Rhode Island, grew up in the 90’s, and played baseball against my will to the delight of my parents for years — I spent a majority of my time picking dandelions in right field and dreading having to bat — so this is a about as big a nostalgia bomb can get for me.

  • Sicario

    Sicario

    ★★★½

    Still a very fun watch… tight and engaging. Brolin is having a blast. Deakins makes everything pretty. 

    Blunt makes every facial tic and physical response inescapable and magnetic in a role that’s basically written to ping-pong between scenes with the audience, answering questions with no driving force. Outside of a brief mention of an ex husband she is about as empty as an NPC making irrational decisions (rational ones in an irrational world). But damn is she mesmerizing in everything.

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  • Orlando, My Political Biography

    Orlando, My Political Biography

    ★★★★

    This worked for me on so many levels. Felt incredibly personal in a way few docs/films do anymore. Also messy in wonderful way.  Does everything work? No (whenever the doc steps away from the personal into the activist political) . Do the highs (the songs are incredible/love the personal backgrounds of the “Orlandos” woven into the novels story) overcome the messy? Absolutely. 

    I want the soundtrack for my commute.

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★★★★

    I mean, it’s completely spectacular. 

    A fully realized, fleshed out, fantastical concept, grounded in place and infinite in scale. Many thanks to The Daniels for realizing this. Why not focus on such granular feelings and character concerns - purposelessness, familial alienation - and throw the entire force and wonder of filmmaking at it in order to understand and accept them? 

    Michelle Yeoh is just an incredible performer on every level; it’s nice to see her in a role that taps…