Amanda McClendon

Amanda McClendon

Favorite films

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Little Women
  • That Thing You Do!
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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  • Moonlight

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★★

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★½

    Let Robert Pattinson keep playing weird little guys forever!

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★★

    I don’t expect Marvel movies to say profound things about racial politics and the role of a Black superhero in this country, but this movie seems to think that it is 😬

    A hell of a lot of fun, and Anthony Mackie, Danny Ramirez, and Carl Lumbly are the best parts. But ultimately not my favorite.

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  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★★★½

    7 reasons to watch everything everywhere all at once

    (I watched an early screening thanks to my local Alamo Drafthouse.)

    1) Michelle Yeoh finally gets a headliner film after being in American cinema for like twenty years and she kills it, she’s so good and she gets to show off her entire range of acting

    2) Ke Huy Quan, though, is the whole heart of this movie and this is the best possible way for him to re-enter acting (if…

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★

    There is a moment in the second half where the subtext becomes text and the metaphor is a little too obvious (if you know you know), and the film kind of lost me there. But for all of that, there is something here about both the beauty and the rot to be found in art-making, and in being an immigrant in America. Everyone is acting their asses off, even where some of the dialogue was a little off-center, and I…