mjdunleavy19

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I rate and review every feature length film I watch!

Favorite films

  • Interstellar
  • Ex Machina
  • Climax
  • It's a Wonderful Life

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  • Punch-Drunk Love

  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1

    ★★★★½

  • Spring Breakers

  • The Substance

    ★★★½

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  • Ex Machina

    Ex Machina

    ★★★★★

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

  • Interstellar

    Interstellar

    ★★★★★

    Ever since I first saw Interstellar last June, it instantly became my favorite movie I’ve ever seen. That has not changed since, nor do I anticipate it changing anytime soon. Maybe ever.

    When I saw the movie for the first time, I watched it on my iPad. As much as a disservice I was unknowingly doing to myself, the movie still felt larger than life. I felt all the emotions that Christopher Nolan intended for his audience to feel, and…

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  • Punch-Drunk Love

    Punch-Drunk Love

    This might be the longest short movie ever. It may have been only 96 minutes, but I’ll be damned if this didn’t feel like it was well over 2 hours long. My mom joined me for this watch and we were both dumbfounded as to how this film is so widely adored. 

    Punch-Drunk Love is a rom-com that failed to deliver anything worthwhile in either genre, with a relationship I didn’t care about and way too jokes that completely missed…

  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1

    Kill Bill: Vol. 1

    ★★★★½

    “At 25, she did her part in the killing of nine innocent people, including my unborn daughter, in a small wedding chapel in El Paso, Texas. But on that day four years ago, she made one big mistake. She should have killed 10.”

    I LOVE the dialogue in Quentin Tarantino films. The two that I’ve seen most recently - Django Unchained and now Kill Bill: Vol. 1 - are on another level in this regard. For one thing, Tarantino is…

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  • Spring Breakers

    Spring Breakers

    “Spring break forever.” (This line would have been iconic to me if everything else didn’t suck).

    I decided a while back that I was going to watch this movie once I was on spring break because I thought it might complement the vibes and put me in a great mood, but I was sadly mistaken.

    I’m no prude by any stretch of the imagination, but this movie felt so trashy to me. Harmony Korine’s direction and writing here is totally…

  • Flow

    Flow

    ★★★

    I was definitely expecting to like Flow a bit more than I did. In spite of that, Flow is an impressive achievement that boasts one of the most beautiful animation styles I’ve ever seen!

    The thing I respect most about this film is how carefully crafted it was. All of the effort and attention to detail that was clearly put into creating Flow made it have the feel of a passion project. The insanely accurate animal mannerisms allowed the film…