Owen Lasko

Owen Lasko

Favorite films

  • Rear Window
  • Before Sunset
  • The Worst Person in the World
  • Ocean's Eleven

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  • Kneecap

    ★★★½

  • Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

  • Inception

    ★★★

  • 21 Bridges

    ★★★

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  • Kneecap

    Kneecap

    ★★★½

    I learned something from this movie:
    There are moments when the nuances aren’t as important because something fucking rips.

  • Inception

    Inception

    ★★★

    I’ve started this movie 5 times since I first saw it. Every time before now, I get bored, distracted, or I’m coming down off shrooms and it makes me feel horrible inside. This time I still didn’t give it my full attention. For most of the movie, I was either responding to emails or playing a game on my phone. 

    When I was paying attention, it was very entertaining. And some of the practical effects are nothing short of genius.…

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  • The Fabelmans

    The Fabelmans

    ★½

    This wasn’t a movie about realizing parents are flawed, real, people. This was a movie about the clean caricatures that we turn the people who hurt us into, in order to come to terms with their flaws. His parents would fit best on shows like Gossip Girl or The OC. They wouldn't have even been among the interesting parents in those shows. 

    Mixed in with that drivel was a fairytale about how he was a prodigious filmmaker who processes emotion…

  • Emilia Pérez

    Emilia Pérez

    Oh no.

    The pacing, logic, and inexplicable music numbers of a Bollywood movie, with none of the joy, hilarity, or scale? Songs seemingly written by taking the script outline word-for-word and adding music? Whatever that pseudo-rap thing that kept happening was? An incredibly serious set of ideas taken to the extremes at every turn with minimal consideration and terrifying earnestness?

    Every part of this is a disaster. Everyone involved should be embarrassed. However, if the people involved had any capacity…

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