Ross Whyte

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Favorite films

  • Donnie Darko
  • Magnolia
  • Spirited Away
  • House

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  • Monkey Man

    ★★★★

  • Cure

    ★★★★

  • A Tale of Two Sisters

    ★★★

  • In the Line of Fire

    ★★★★

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  • Eternals

    Eternals

    ★★★

    Hard to pinpoint what's off here in any given moment, and it isn't that it feels too different for the MCU. I went in expecting and wanting different. Maybe it's trying to mould itself into the MCU too readily, quips that don't land cluttering up a story that kind of needs to present itself more grandly than it's able to.

    The actors don't sell it, only a couple feeling like they really believe the characters they're portraying. Throw in a frustrating ending that's hard to care about and you're left with something that's enjoyable enough but I can't really imagine watching again.

  • Jerry Maguire

    Jerry Maguire

    ★★★

    It's too much, Jerry Maguire, and also too many. But I'll let you off.

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  • The Amazing Spider-Man 2

    The Amazing Spider-Man 2

    ★★

    I'm not entirely sure what I just watched. Was it meant to be like that? Was it meant to be so weird?

    Why was it weird, you ask? They turned Electro into a dubstep song. I'm not just saying that, his powers and inner thoughts (if that's what the odd talky-singing that surrounded me in the cinema indeed was) made dubstep. Add to that the fact that his character arc had as much depth as your average Skrillex song and…

  • American Honey

    American Honey

    ★★★★★

    A brutally stylish, meandering powerhouse that, despite its near three hour run time, I could have watched for a whole lot longer. Everything about this film, from Lane and LaBeouf to the way the camera moves as though it's always lived in that world, is a vibrant burst of pure life, as downtrodden as that life may be.

    The soundtrack steals the show on so many occasions but never detracts -- it only acts as an enhancement to wonderful visual explosion. Even the scenes that we should be sick of by the end feel entirely reinvigorated, time and time again.