Jason Cartagena

Jason Cartagena

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Favorite films

  • No Country for Old Men
  • Zodiac
  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley

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  • The Black Phone

    ★★

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★★

  • Cameraperson

    ★★★★½

  • Who Is Luigi Mangione?

    ★★

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  • In a Violent Nature

    In a Violent Nature

    ★★★½

    What a super cool idea. A POV slasher movie that is mostly shot from the perspective of the killer. 

    Felt like one of those YouTube videos of people walking around cities while it’s raining, but with a sadistic twist. 

    The gore/kills are absolutely top notch. And it’s a lot of fun, yet manages to still become harrowing in the final act. 

    The film does lose steam in the last 15 minutes tho, with a super long winded conversation in a…

  • Halloween

    Halloween

    ★★★

    I felt like I should revisit this last night. Liked it slightly more, but not by much. 

    I don’t know how much emphasis I should put on this, but Michael Myers and the Halloween franchise has never been overly brutal, which this film is. 

    A lot of the humor doesn’t work for me, but I do think it’s a pretty fucking tight script. 

    I still don’t think David Gordon Green is the best at capturing the atmosphere of what a…

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  • Run

    Run

    ★★½

    Started as a decent by-the-numbers thriller that went off the deep end when a literal box of exposition shows up in the film. Had me rolling my eyes in all directions. 

    Easy watch and Sarah Paulson is having some campy fun here, but ultimately forgettable because of its super lazy and predictable script.

  • Anomalisa

    Anomalisa

    ★★★★

    It's pretty ironic that a film about a man growing tired of the mundanity of his life, could make things so mundane seem so interesting due to the decision to make Anomalisa a stop-motion animated film. And that animation is pretty gorgeous, including the odd way the faces are constructed in various partitions.

    I loved the idea of everyone, beside the main character, having the same voice. Even if it gave the film a bit of a South Park/Team America:…

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