Caleb Holt

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I switch out one of my 4 favorites every week 
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Favorite films

  • Double Indemnity
  • Broadcast News
  • Rushmore
  • Memories of Murder

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  • Videodrome

  • Badlands

  • Memories of Murder

    ★★★★★

  • Peeping Tom

    ★★★★

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★½

    Didn’t know the floor was this low for a Bong Joon Ho film. Everything is uneven, the performances, Pattinson and Naomi Ackie are good. Pattinson is able to play both versions of Mickey with enough subtleties that you can tell the difference between them without visual cues and he has some great physicality especially to 17. Mark Ruffalo at a certain point is just doing a trump impersonation the way you would see on SNL.  The pacing is very uneven…

  • Strange Days

    Strange Days

    ★★★½

    There’s so much here that works we well that kind of gets overshadowed by what doesn’t. The more plot there is the more problems arise, but the first hour or so is awesome, and even when it’s going full neo noir I’m in, but the last 20 minutes or so really lose me. The unraveling of the antagonist plot especially totally falls apart for me. I actually really liked the final scene it ends on, but I do wish more…

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  • Saturday Night

    Saturday Night

    A truly kinetic film, plays out during the chaos of the lead up to the first Saturday night live show in real time, which I thought was a great framing device that gave the film a relentless energy that it for the most part never really loses. It starts with a long oner that follows various characters around the set as different departments prep for the show. It reminded me of the long oner In magnolia where pta does a…

  • Solo: A Star Wars Story

    Solo: A Star Wars Story

    ★★★★★

    Nobody can convince me this is bad, I love it. Alden Ehrenreich is a great Han and Donald Glover is an even better lando. Really need that Lando project that was supposedly happening at one point to happen.