Rhett Snell

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Favorite films

  • Before Sunset
  • Heat
  • No Country for Old Men
  • Singin' in the Rain

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  • The Graduate

    ★★★★

  • Flow

    ★★★½

  • Pacific Rim

    ★★★★

  • Bookworm

    ★★★½

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  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★★★★

    Mailboxes drip like lampposts in the twisted birth canal of the coliseum
    Rim job fairy teapots mask the temper tantrum
    O say can you see 'em

  • The Road to Patagonia

    The Road to Patagonia

    ★★

    The narrator is pretty insufferable, but if you hit mute it looks amazing.

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  • Minding the Gap

    Minding the Gap

    ★★★★★

    "I don't want to be alone".

    Those words are said roughly two thirds of the way through 'Minding the Gap', and they could be the thesis for this wonderful documentary following lives of a small group of (mostly) young men who bond through skateboarding.

    Life happens, and we see them grow up, and in some cases grow apart. It's warts-and-all stuff, and Bing Liu doesn't hide some of the uglier attitudes and decisions they make. Yet, you can't help but…

  • First Reformed

    First Reformed

    ★★★★★

    The priest of a tiny, tourist-stop church finds out one of his congregants is an eco-terrorist. That's about all you want to know going in to this bleak, indelible film.

    I was a pastor for around eight years, and I watched this with some friends who currently work as pastors. So, my reflections are undoubtedly self-indulgent. But hey, that's one of the things that movies do; help us to make sense of our world.

    'First Reformed' is one of the…

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