Jonathan

Jonathan

Longtime movie lover.
On Letterboxd since 2015.
Drawn to all that is sexy, thrilling, playing with genre, philosophical, and personal.

Favorite films

  • Sorcerer
  • Le Bonheur
  • Rosemary's Baby
  • The Player

Recent activity

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  • Love & Death

  • Kinds of Kindness

  • Juror #2

  • Black Bag

Recent reviews

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  • Kinds of Kindness

    Kinds of Kindness

    For an anthology film this really held my attention; you never know what Yorgos' characters are going to do. I bet the cast and crew had fun making this; would watch again.

  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    Kinda snoozy.

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  • By the Time It Gets Dark

    By the Time It Gets Dark

    ★★★★

    By the Time It Gets Dark is beautiful, meditative, and enigmatic. It is also a chore; not for lack of material to process, but because built deep into my movie-going experience is an expectation to know explicitly how disparate elements relate, and to be given some sense, early on, of where a film is leading. By the Time It Gets Dark provides no such road-map, and makes no connections on behalf of the viewer. It requires sustained focus from a…

  • Skincare

    Skincare

    ★★★½

    A good time at the movies that also got me thinking about how managing a business these days means engaging in a constant popularity contest on social media in order to stay relevant. The precarity of needing customers to continue wanting to spend their money here and not there seems exhausting. Maybe marketing is the real horror, maybe it’s Maybelline.