mattmerr

mattmerr

Favorite films

  • The Fall
  • The Prestige
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • The Holdovers

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • Companion

    ★★★★

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★½

  • Chicago

    ★★★★½

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  • Captain America: Brave New World

    Captain America: Brave New World

    ★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Chicago

    Chicago

    ★★★★½

    First time watch. Wow how have I not seen this before. I have to recommend this movie(? musical? en elevated form of both?) even if just for the press conference song. I don't think you could pull that off as well in a stage production or in a non-musical movie. I think the whole movie is basically a wrapper to justify those 4 minutes and it's fantastic.

    The first song might be an awkward watch with other people, but once you're past that you're mostly good.

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  • Yolo

    Yolo

    ★★★½

    I didn't know anything about this or the lead before seeing it and I left the theater so confused how it could possibly have been filmed. Very impressive.

    Several funny scenes, had a good time.

    Localization: a few scenes don't give enough time to read translation of written material and they didn't translate anything during the early music scene but overall it wasn't much worse off for it.

  • The Last Voyage of the Demeter

    The Last Voyage of the Demeter

    ★★

    AMC let me buy a kids meal and delivered it to me for this movie. I got to cut in line with A-List but the last person in line was walking towards a different register to be helped but uhh then they closed that register so they were stuck behind me watching confusedly as I cut in line and ordered a kids meal.

    Neat vibes with a sailing ship horror but the flashing lights was excessive and jarring and the…