Madeline

Madeline

Favorite films

  • Titanic
  • Little Women
  • Vertigo
  • Anastasia

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  • Snow White

    ★½

  • The Nice Guys

    ★★★½

  • Crime of Passion

    ★★

  • Black Bag

    ★★★½

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  • Snow White

    Snow White

    ★½

    The Disney live action remakes have gotten progressively more creatively bankrupt since Cinderella, which also happens to be the best. This movie is not worth the Rachel Zegler smear campaign. Gal Gadot is as awful as everyone says and while I support Zegler in the midst of this insane news cycle I still don't think she's a very good actress. The costumes are horrible, from Snow White's cartoonish dress to the Hot Topic-esque bandits costumes. Speaking of bandits, Flynn Rider…

  • The Nice Guys

    The Nice Guys

    ★★★½

    Nobody appreciates the Waltons / John-Boy references more than me. Thought the daughter was kind of hit or miss. Sometimes I liked her, sometimes I thought she was annoying. Very funny and old school.

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  • American Fiction

    American Fiction

    ★★★

    This was fine. The story really suffers from a lack of focus. They needed to fully commit to either the fake author plot or the familial drama. By trying to have it both ways, both storylines suffered. The meta ending really didn't work for me, either. 

    To indulge briefly in a little awards talk: in a stacked Best Picture race, this comes up short. And sadly I don't think Sterling K. Brown's performance justifies him being nominated over Charles Melton…

  • Something's Gotta Give

    Something's Gotta Give

    ★★

    You'll tell yourself that Nancy Meyers will make her choosing Jack Nicholson over Keanu Reeves make sense but unfortunately she does not.