Saxon Whitehead

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Favorite films

  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • There Will Be Blood
  • The Iron Giant
  • Synecdoche, New York

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  • This Is the Tom Green Documentary

    ★★★½

  • Empire of the Sun

    ★★★½

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    ★★★★★

  • Jack and Jill

    ★★

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  • This Is the Tom Green Documentary

    This Is the Tom Green Documentary

    ★★★½

    Not super crazy about the part that suggests Tom Green is partially responsible for The Joe Rogan Experience, but as someone who was a bit too young to appreciate him in his heyday, this is a good primer for his whole career.

  • Empire of the Sun

    Empire of the Sun

    ★★★½

    Wanted to like this more than I did, but it’s hard to deny how great certain moments are. The John Williams score is among his best, and Spielberg really taps into some interesting stuff that he would go on to perfect in his later work. It just feels a bit stretched out for my taste, and that some of its edges are a bit sanded down. Still pretty good overall though, and I can definitely see why some have reclaimed it in recent years.

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  • The Batman

    The Batman

    ★★★★½

    At a time where many moviegoers are feeling a bit of superhero fatigue from all of the comic book based films that have been released over the past several years, I wouldn't put it past someone to approach Matt Reeves's The Batman with a bit of skepticism. In addition to how comic book movies have saturated the market as of late, the most recent portrayal of the Caped Crusader didn't exactly hit with audiences. Ben Affleck's take on Batman has…

  • Fresh

    Fresh

    ★★

    It’s plain to see that Fresh wants to be a biting social commentary on dating in the modern world, but the messages it tries to convey don’t come across the way it wants to. It feels like a strange cross between Get Out and Promising Young Woman, but not in a good way. It so deeply wants to be an important film, but it comes at the cost of any nuance in the themes it chooses to focus on. The script…