Max Tackett

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Favorite films

  • Sound of Metal
  • American Psycho
  • Blade Runner 2049
  • Annihilation

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  • A Real Pain

    ★★★½

  • The Happening

  • Magazine Dreams

    ★★★½

  • The Bikeriders

    ★★★

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  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain

    ★★★½

    I relate to David more than I care to admit. Well-written and performed quite nicely, but I’m not buying that everyone keeps approaching Benji to say “turns out you were right when you were being a total prick earlier!!”

    Shares a lot of DNA with A Different Man, which I thought captured the fantasy of Benji with more self-awareness

  • Better Man

    Better Man

    ★★★★

    Sue me but this is highly entertaining and unfairly maligned. Breathes life into a very tired genre by refusing to redeem its subject (or even make him likable) for basically the entire runtime. I’m not interested in famous/influential individuals giving rose-tinted recollections of their past, I only want to see a mocap performance of a monkey man being honest about how miserable of a person he is

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  • From Justin to Kelly

    From Justin to Kelly

    KELLY,

    I O U A BRGR,
    U GAME?

    JUSTIN

  • Cats

    Cats

    -Jennifer Hudson cat has snot running out of her nose and INTO HER MOUTH for 80% of her screen time. This is not an exaggeration

    -Seeing a close-up of Jason Derulo cat pouring champagne into the mouth of James Corden cat was one of the most horrifying things I’ve witnessed to date

    -We definitely got the pre-CGI revision edit in our theater because this looked like a bad PlayStation 2 game from 2003. Judi Dench cat and pretty much every…