Mark Brenden

Mark Brenden

Favorite films

  • Terms of Endearment
  • You Can Count on Me
  • Hoop Dreams
  • The Emigrants

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  • Conclave

    ★★★½

  • Perfect Harmony

    ★★★

  • Dream Scenario

    ★★★½

  • Road House

    ★½

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  • Conclave

    Conclave

    ★★★½

    What can I say? I enjoyed my time watching this picture! Unlikely to be one I’m still thinking about in a year, but likely one I’ll watch again in a year.

  • Perfect Harmony

    Perfect Harmony

    ★★★

    Don’t wanna spoil anything but if you’re feeling judge-y about the lyrics to “Oo Ee Oo” — as are the “jejune” English faculty at Nondescript U — well … just fucking wait. Also that song, the entire script to this film, and all the acting seem to be done by AI!

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  • Dream Scenario

    Dream Scenario

    ★★★½

    One of those annoyingly astute commentaries on our times or whatever. The build up is fun and I laughed often when Cage walked into people’s dreams, unassuming and only minimally interested in the absurdity transpiring around him, sometimes looking at the dreamer with a vague and fleeting longing.  The advertising stuff at the end was on the nose and the source of “annoyingly” above — but sure that’s probably what would happen and probably what I would’ve written too.

  • The Banshees of Inisherin

    The Banshees of Inisherin

    ★★★★½

    The dream of a walkable neighborhood

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