mattnirmaier

mattnirmaier

Favorite films

  • Magnolia
  • Kicking and Screaming
  • The Last Days of Disco
  • Almost Famous

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ½

  • Paterson

    ★★★★

  • District 9

    ★★★★

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★

    Smart, sexy, sophisticated.

    Soderbergh is prolific, Black Bag is fresh off the heels of Presence—which I thought was excellent and understated.

    This film is well acted, directed. The story is centered around espionage and deception. Tonally it is a playful mix of serious and light.

    My main qualm would be the ending, which felt a tad anticlimactic. The film zips along, setting up a nuclear plant meltdown software that has been traded into the hands of Russians (Ukrainians?) to force…

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ½

    Holy cow I found this abysmal. The characters are unlikable, and not in a fun way. The humor is juvenile and annoying. I did not care about the climax, I don’t know what growth Mickey, or anyone else went through. The music was annoying. Space can be such a clean, stylish aesthetic and this is mostly shot to look like a Netflix show. Tonally it’s goofy.

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  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★★½

    Subversive. Excellent screenplay. Too long. Not as funny as it thinks it is.

  • Paprika

    Paprika

    ★★★

    Liked the hand draw style. Kind of proto Inception. Found the plot a little hard to follow. Only a 90-minute runtime but the movie kind of dragged for me. Not mad I watched it but it didn’t grab me.