Alex Leonce

Alex Leonce

Favorite films

  • Mulholland Drive
  • Good Time
  • Spirited Away
  • Mysterious Skin

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  • In the Grip of Terror: Making Talk To Me

    ★★★

  • Talk to Me

    ★★★★½

  • Traffic

    ★★★★

  • Borderline

    ★★★

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  • Traffic

    Traffic

    ★★★★

    The nickeling of Universal Pictures releasing two Soderbergh movies in 2000, that ended up receiving tons of awards attention. Likewise for Viola Davis and Luiz Guzman working with Sody.

    Traffic's a flexing, filmmaking exercise from Sody. The varied, raw and grainy color palettes for each plotline fit well, even if Mexico gets the piss treatment, Martinez's ambient score suits the heavy nature of things, and the ensemble cast soars.

    People say that Ocean's Eleven made him receive the auteur/blank check…

  • Borderline

    Borderline

    ★★★

    Samara Weaving and Alba Baptista singing Céline Dion's It's All Coming Back to Me Now, is the definition of elite cinema.

    The film itself, while not great by all means, it's darkly funny with awesome work from Weaving and Nicholson and Warden takes some creative turns in the narrative.

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  • Fresh

    Fresh

    ★★★★

    Sometimes, you're glad that you don't know anything about some movies. Fresh is one of them!

    What a pleasant surprise of a dark romance comedy, as Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sebastian Stan are fantastic in their roles, with effective direction from Mimi Cave, and a smartly written script. I really can't say much, because the less you know, the better.

    The title card drop is also one for the history books. I'm talking Climax, Irreversible good!

  • You People

    You People

    ★½

    You People is the epitome of that one nigga, who thinks is saying some real shit about a trendy topic, but ends up saying not only the obvious, but absolutely nothing of value, and wastes everyone's time.

    I'm talking to YOU, Kenya Barris!

    You may have struck gold with Black-ish, but every other project you've done is almost the same and it's fucking stale!

    Wasting a good cast, especially Eddie Murphy and Julia Louis-Dreyfus with trite, lazy, and predictable material…