lukemurrison

lukemurrison

Favorite films

  • The Thing
  • Return of the Jedi
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • The Monkey

    ★★

  • Speak No Evil

    ★★★

  • The Big Sleep

    ★★★

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★

    Steven Soderbergh is single-handedly saving the first three months of 2025 from cinematic desolation. The David Koepp slander also needs to officially end

  • The Monkey

    The Monkey

    ★★

    I’m putting Oz Perkins on hack watch – The Monkey is a painfully unfunny tonal mess that manages to make extreme moments of gore feel entirely weightless. I loosely understand the Final Destination comparisons, but it would pretty easily be the second worst movie in that franchise

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

    No disrespect to We Live in Time, but following it up with this less than 24 hours later made it seem insane that these two works even occupy the same medium

    The Brutalist feels like an instant landmark piece of American cinema. Earns its runtime and then some. Director Brady Corbet, who was in attendance for a Q&A session, implored that this should be seen in 70mm if possible, and it’s easy to see why. Every frame is breathtakingly gorgeous, rife with shadows…

  • Some Like It Hot

    Some Like It Hot

    ★★★★½

    The boomers were right about Marilyn Monroe