Michael Guerra

Michael Guerra

Film maker at Rapid Review

Favorite films

  • Halloween
  • Jurassic Park
  • Avengers: Infinity War
  • La La Land

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  • Novocaine

    ★★★

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

  • The Gorge

  • Mufasa: The Lion King

    ★★★½

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  • Novocaine

    Novocaine

    ★★★

    Action Comedy movies will be looked at historically, as the most financially successful genre of the 2010’s. The MCU launched us into multiple box-office juggernauts films like 21 jump street, the other guys and the kingsman movies. Every movie action movie that comes out needs to check all of the MCU boxes, are there jokes, sexy lead, and big explosions.

    But as the MCU started to wither and die, these films started becoming more sparse because of box office uncertainty.…

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

    The legacy of architecture in film often reflects the intricate relationship between art and survival. Films like The Fountainhead and Parasite illustrate how architecture shapes society and personal ambition. Joining this thematic legacy is The Brutalist, a 2024 film by Brady Corbet that has critics buzzing.

    The Brutalist is a sweeping historical drama starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, and Guy Pearce. The story follows László Toth, a Hungarian architect who flees war-torn Europe to start anew in 1940s America. His…

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  • The Monkey

    The Monkey

    ★★★★½

    One of my favorite themes horror can touch on is generational horror, there’s something special about a totem, an evil, or some kind of McMuffin that gets passed down from generation to generation. 

    Someone who really understands this theme is OSgood Perkins, a film director who is fueling the genre with modern classics like longlegs. It is widely known that Anthony Perkins is his father, but normally where an artist would want to escape their father’s shadow, Perkins fully embraces…

  • MaXXXine

    MaXXXine

    ★★½

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