Ryan_McL

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Favorite films

  • Heat
  • Chinatown
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Eyes Wide Shut

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  • The Rules of Attraction

    ★★½

  • House of Games

    ★★★½

  • Black Bag

    ★★★

  • Ocean's Eleven

    ★★★★½

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  • A Million Ways to Die in the West

    A Million Ways to Die in the West

    maybe Seth MacFarlane auteurism has gone too far.

  • Licorice Pizza

    Licorice Pizza

    ★★★★★

    70mm

    Yet again, Paul Thomas Anderson proves why he's the greatest director working today.

    From the opening frames of LICORICE PIZZA to the end, I had a smile of my face, thinking of why I love movies. The film is pure joy from beginning to end. PTA lets go of narrative structure to create something that feels more like a free-wheeling breeze. The film jumps from beat to beat, scene to scene. Characters, most clearly Jon Peters, enter the film…

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  • Less Than Zero

    Less Than Zero

    ★★

    Ed Lachman masterclass. strips away almost all of the maturity of Ellis' text for the most 1980s anti-drug movie of all time.

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    ★★★★★

    35mm

    one of the great screenplays. the only movie to understand the beauty and romance of the Long Island Rail Road

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  • Killers of the Flower Moon

    Killers of the Flower Moon

    ★★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire

    Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire

    ★½

    70mm

    i don’t think any filmmaker has ever been hurt by a netflix partnership more than Zack Snyder. while i hesitate to call him a great director due to his pre-dc films either being just mildly good or outright bad, with his four dc films he started to come into his own as a filmmaker. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Zack Snyder’s Justice League in particular were his first two major works. however, since he started making films for netflix…