Ben Veenstra

Ben Veenstra

Favorite films

  • Inside Llewyn Davis
  • Seven Psychopaths
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • The Incredibles

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  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

  • Darkest Hour

    ★★★★

  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

    ★★★★★

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    Downsizing

    I really did not like this movie. I had no idea what it was trying to do, and I’m not sure if the filmmakers really knew either. It seemed they were kind of trying to be both comedic and make a comment on society but neither worked. It just wasn’t funny, besides a few slightly amusing gags about large things now in the small world. Also, the social commentary part started about half way through once the real story seemed…

  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

    Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

    There was nothing new to this movie, and I don’t know why they keep making these.

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  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

    Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

    ★★★★★

    Martin McDonagh is a master of being able to make you so incredibly depresssd on the outlook of the world while at the same time laughing your head off. Frances McDormand gives her best performance since Fargo (maybe better?), Sam Rockwell is once again so easy to love to hate, and Woody Harrelson adds great depth to a character caught between a rock and a hard place. Carter Burwell delivers on yet another beautiful score and the cinematography is sublime.…

  • The Shape of Water

    The Shape of Water

    ★★★½

    Visually amazing. The set design of an amped up 60s consumer America was brilliant in and of its self, but del Toro once again showed his mastery of the monster. No one else could have created such a wonderful and believable love story between a mute woman and The Missing Link from Monsters vs. Aliens. I wouldn’t say I really needed or wanted to know so much about the details of inter species relations but it wasn’t that distracting from the story so I can’t complain on a technical level.

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