Michael Crommett

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Favorite films

  • Minding the Gap
  • The Thin Red Line
  • First Cow
  • All That Jazz

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  • No Other Land

  • The Brutalist

  • The Brutalist

  • Aftersun

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  • No Other Land

    No Other Land

    Streaming Private Link

    If there were any justice in the world, this would be in every theater in America and on a major streaming platform after that. It is not only a brave film but a thoughtful one. It’s as interested in laying bare Israeli atrocities as it is in the conversations that occur in between, and it’s this wholistic approach that gives the film its power. It never shies away from a tough conversation. If you can watch it, see it and have as many other people in your life see it as possible. There is no more important film this year in my opinion.

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    70mm Screening at Village East (Again)

    I rewatched sooner than expected! Definitely still one of my favorites of the year. It is odd to watch something where the filmmaker is explicitly trying to make a masterpiece, but when so many parts work as is the case for this film, you don’t mind feeling the filmmaker trying hard. This is what Chazelle wanted Babylon to be, but it wasn’t nearly as cohesive or rich with ideas as the Brutalist was.

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  • The Iron Claw

    The Iron Claw

    Alamo Downtown Brooklyn 

    What if Martha Marcy May Marlene but the cult is your family? Sean Durkin turns in another great slow boiling pot film.

    You are brought closer and closer toward the Von Eriches just as everyone in the family is dangerously propelled outward by their domineering patriarch. 

    Efron is bringing the heat in this performance. You buy him as initially naive with a slow realization about his father. Do we ever know our fathers or better asked: can…

  • Maestro

    Maestro

    Alamo Lower Manhattan

    What does this film want to be? That’s not a condescending question. It’s an honest one. I might need a rewatch, but I felt it’s trying hard to be a two hander but neither hand gets their due until the third act. Everything before that feels on the train tracks. There’s only one place this can go—Leonard Bernstein will be a renowned composer and conductor.

    That inevitability doesn’t have to exist. We know Oppenheimer will build the…

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