Sam Matheson

Sam Matheson

Favorite films

  • The Wizard of Oz
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

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  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★

  • Conclave

    ★★★★½

  • A Haunting in Venice

    ★★★

  • True Grit

    ★★★★★

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  • Captain America: Brave New World

    Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★

    Never quite left first gear for me narratively. I kept expecting some big twist or reveal, but the story is pretty quaint and untangles itself with ease. To think this required five writers to boot up ChatGPT for this toilet paper screenplay.

    Anthony Mackie is such a chemistry machine. He's not a great performer when he's alone (the volume scenes opposite Red Hulk prove that), but when he's paired with Isaiah Bradley and others he does great.

    There's this assistant…

  • Conclave

    Conclave

    ★★★★½

    I really appreciated the subtlety here. There's room here for Conclave to be a more bombastic, yelly movie, but I adored the restraint on display.

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