mattrlyles

mattrlyles

Favorite films

  • Apocalypse Now
  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • In Bruges
  • GoodFellas

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  • Joker: Folie à Deux

    ★★

  • Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

    ★★★★½

  • The X-Files

    ★★★½

  • A Shot in the Dark

    ★★★½

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  • Joker: Folie à Deux

    Joker: Folie à Deux

    ★★

    Todd Phillips is determined to make me feel like an idiot for defending the first movie. People hated the original out of a perceived moral obligation because the “wrong” people would like it despite it being a totally functional and solid piece of homage filmmaking. I really do believe that. But this one is everything the original was accused of being plus bad and superfluous musical numbers.

  • The X-Files

    The X-Files

    ★★★½

    A better movie than “I Want to Believe” but completely inseparable from the TV episodes that preceded it. That’s not a problem for me but a non-X-phile would undoubtedly find it impenetrable.

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    ★★★½

    Fine. You were right. It’s better than I remember. Go ahead and gloat.

  • The Apprentice

    The Apprentice

    ★★★½

    Sebastian Stan pulls off the impossible.

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