mwenzel8

mwenzel8

The only optimist on Letterboxd

Favorite films

  • The Social Network
  • Call Me by Your Name
  • How to Train Your Dragon
  • TÁR

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • Nickel Boys

    ★★★★½

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★½

  • Wicked

    ★★★½

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★

    God I fucking hate capitalism. But not as much as Bong Joon-Ho does! We must protect this man at all costs

  • Nickel Boys

    Nickel Boys

    ★★★★½

    In an Oscars season where everybody’s talking about AI in The Brutalist, everything wrong with Emilia Perez, or Dune not getting enough nominations, Nickel Boys is probably destined to be a small footnote in this years Oscar discourse. And that’s a damn shame, because it’s without question one of the best films of the year.

    Nickel Boys is ripe with brilliant subtext and the best character building/writing of the year. While so many films this year championed immense spectacle, Nickel…

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  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★★

    On every level, this film is a triumph. 

    While there are countless things about the film that are incredible, from the cinematography, to Timothee’s lead performance, to some of the best vfx in years, there are 2 things I find most unique to the modern blockbuster landscape.

    First is the pacing. Without spoiling, the beats of so many sequences are plotted out to perfect timing that must have taken weeks in the edit to feel truly earned. One early scene…

  • The Killer

    The Killer

    ★★★★½

    While by no mean’s Fincher’s best, I urge everyone who can to see this on a big screen and not at home on Netflix. This is by far Fincher’s most intimate and darkly comedic film, and it feels like nothing else that’s out there in spite of being an incredibly generic story. This is not a movie for everyone, or maybe even most people, but it’s Fincher at some of his most experimental. I still don’t know how much of it works, but I’m so excited to see it again