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  • Spider-Man 2
  • Finding Nemo
  • The Hateful Eight
  • There Will Be Blood

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  • Sicario

    ★★★★★

  • The Watchers

    ½

  • Ma

    ★★

  • Sense and Sensibility

    ★★★★

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  • Sicario

    Sicario

    ★★★★★

    Perhaps one of the best films on American foreign policy I’ve ever seen. A stunning critique on the endless cycles of increasing immorality, delusion, and violence that has gripped American interventionism for decades. Despite all this, complexity Villeneuve maintains a masterful thriller in conjunction with Rodger Deakins insane cinematography and the entire cast eating this entire picture up. 

    I’m not sure how this one slipped by me, but it deserves a longer more thought out review at a later date. But for now it’s absolutely a masterpiece in my eyes and another great film in Villeneuve‘s impressive filmography. 

    5/5

  • The Watchers

    The Watchers

    ½

    What an absolute bore and a waste of time.

    The premise is a pretty good one to get you hooked. Dakota Fanning enters a magical Irish death forest where a primordial evil lies in wait. There’s a mysterious bunker and a cast of rag tag misfits that are creepily “watched” every night by those very same creatures. Dakota and the crew must hold out and follow a strict set of rules in order to stay alive and avoid said creatures. Okay…

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  • Captain America: Brave New World

    Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★

    Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford deliver some good stuff here in Marvel’s latest feature film. It was nice in particular to see Mackie get his chance at the full Captain America mantel and attempt to fill the boots that are now ever noticeably void of Chris Evans’ Steve Rodgers. Despite Evans’ absence, that core perseverance and good spirited idealism of the Captain America character are very present here in a way that connected with me like the “Falcon and Winter Solider” show. I can’t…

  • Sense and Sensibility

    Sense and Sensibility

    ★★★★

    I watched this film for a class as I finished up Sense and Sensibility this week. I kind of forgot how much I really appreciated Austen’s first novel and Ang Lee’s subsequent adaptation. So much of the narrative is pure tension between reason and emotion. I mean it is called sense and sensibility after-all, that much should be obvious, but I think that core oscillation between these two forces is why Elinor and Marianne’s story endures the test of time.…

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