Max Wexler

Max Wexler

Favorite films

  • Moonstruck
  • Stop Making Sense
  • Paris, Texas
  • Blue Velvet

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  • La Pointe Courte

    ★★★★

  • Vagabond

    ★★★★★

  • In the Mouth of Madness

    ★★★½

  • SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

    ★★★★½

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  • La Pointe Courte

    La Pointe Courte

    ★★★★

    There's cats in almost every scene in this film so that's worth at least one star right there. As for the rest of the stars, even if I didn't have context for this film, I think I'd still likely be able to infer that it was a precursor to (or proginator of) the new wave movement. I say that because the characteristic traits of French new wave cinema are all there, but it feels like the "kinks", as it were,…

  • Vagabond

    Vagabond

    ★★★★★

    This is the type of movie I'll be thinking about for a long time. There's so many ways to interpret Mona's self-inficted insolation. On the one hand, she's the subject of envy as she's transcended the capitalist world's gender rolls and ridged social structures. On the other hand, in a word where everyone else has made concessions to the machine in exchange for relative comfort, she's utterly alone.

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  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    ★★★

    If Rabecca Fergesson tried to indoctrinate me into commiting nuclear holy war, i'd do it. Anyway... maybe I'm just not Dune guy. I can't fully get into a movie where the main character is an untouchable Christ figure. That said, obviously this was an incredibly impressive production with some beautiful cinematography and VFX.

  • Longlegs

    Longlegs

    ★★

    This did nothing for me. The most frustrating parts across the board were the performances. Nobody, even Cage, felt like they knew what to do with their characters.

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