Roysten Smit

Roysten Smit

Favorite films

  • Lady Bird
  • Uncut Gems
  • After Hours
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire

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  • Legally Blonde

    ★★★½

  • A Beautiful Imperfection

    ★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • Ornamental Hairpin

    ★★★★

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  • A Beautiful Imperfection

    A Beautiful Imperfection

    ★★½

    Nothing overtly wrong with this, but it’s just plain boring. Unrevealing lighting, uninteresting camerawork (nearly every shot also seems to be handheld for some reason?) and an uninspired script (every other line in this is either a philosophical or a religious quote). It’s not a bad story and it does its job as a film adaptation, but that’s about it.

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★

    A quintessentially Bong Joon-ho film in just about every way, but I'm particularly glad about the extent to which this leaned into his knack for physical comedy (was often reminded of the fall down the stairs in Parasite and the jump kicks in Memories of Murder). And I'm almost willing to give this a higher rating just because of how fun and versatile the main concept is but maybe that's simultaneously its weakness? Like it’s clearly trying to explore all the…

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  • Attack of the 50 Foot Camgirl

    Attack of the 50 Foot Camgirl

    ½

    This is like if someone wrote a really ambitious porno but got so caught up in the storyline they forgot they were making a porno.

  • The Killer

    The Killer

    ★★★

    Kind of disappointed not a single one of the fake IDs said “McLovin” during all the airport check-ins.

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