Owen Keeley

Owen Keeley

Favorite films

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • No Country for Old Men
  • Blade Runner
  • The Graduate

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  • Seventeen

    ★★★★½

  • The Substance

    ★★★½

  • No Other Land

  • J. Roy: New and Used Furniture

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  • The Place Beyond the Pines

    The Place Beyond the Pines

    ★★★½

    A unique and sprawling story that has a bunch of strong and well executed ideas, but doesn’t quite stick the landing, for me. What makes this a unique film is arguably its fatal flaw: it spends its first act establishing a strong emotional core, but then flips the script and tries to be a thinking-man’s film for the remaining 90 minutes. Now, I’m no monkey, so I can handle this type of storytelling without stubbornly throwing shit at the screen,…

  • The Batman

    The Batman

    ★★★★★

    When I was watching The Green Knight, I kept thinking “This all looks like a trailer”, trying to be overly cinematic with its editing and shot composition, but it ultimately just seemed pretentious because it didn’t make me feel anything. This…… this is just like that: it feels like an epic trailer most of the time, where everything about the flow of shots and music/sound is intended to make every detail about Batman and Gotham as dramatic as possible, but…

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  • The Last of Us

    The Last of Us

    ★★★★★

    This will be a mostly spoiler free video game review of The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part 2. It won’t be accounted for in any lists or my ‘favorites’ because I’d like to keep this account focused on movies, and adding video games into the mix would only add confusion.


    “You know, as bad as those things are, at least they're predictable. It's the normal people that scare me.” 

    -Bill


    The protagonist of this story is…

  • Ah

    Ah

    ★★½

    I did not watch this.

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