Gabriel

Gabriel

Favorite films

  • Spider-Man 2
  • In the Mood for Love
  • The Godfather
  • The Taste of Things

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  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★

  • Flight Risk

    ★★

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

  • Companion

    ★★★

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  • Captain America: Brave New World

    Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★

    This has the bones of a really cool movie with interesting ideas that could've come together in a grounded way with a killer tone and real stakes...

    Unfortunately, you can see and feel the gum, toothpicks, and tape holding this disaster together. It's really sad and a shame because we had some great potential with some connective tissue from the TV series and a new story to tell, but it's both misguided in its direction (Hulk, Eternals, Captain America...) and execution.

    Fantastic 4 needs to work, badly.

  • Flight Risk

    Flight Risk

    ★★

    Huge yikes brother, but hey we cackled at Mark Whalberg a few times and that last action sequence and ending was quite something!

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  • Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle

    Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle

    ★★★★

    "Just go easy on your rates of interest, mate."

  • Pursuit Of A Jigsaw

    Pursuit Of A Jigsaw

    ★★★★½

    In Pursuit of a Jigsaw, no moment is wasted, with every element--the score and sound, the camera, the acting, and the editing--doing work to carry an idea. This, even with the tiniest of details such as the heart-shaped buttons on the wife-to-be's dress.

    I loved the use of close-ups and zooms. I had chills in the beach scene (even in full color, which you'd think would make the mood lighter, but here it was almost discomforting), especially with what happens…