sbrinson

sbrinson

Favorite films

  • Solaris
  • Z
  • Stop Making Sense
  • Farewell My Concubine

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  • The Age of Innocence

    ★★★

  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    ★★★★★

  • Nosferatu

  • The Lavender Hill Mob

    ★★★★½

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  • The Age of Innocence

    The Age of Innocence

    ★★★

    I’m reading this film substantially worse than I feel like it objectively deserves, because while it’s very well acted and well made, I couldn’t get over how insufferable I found the main character

  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    ★★★★★

    Everything I have to actually say about the film is, unfortunately, kind of critical - I felt like the jazz and the concrete history competed unhelpfully for attention, the Instagram infographic visual sensibility felt too much like Grimonprez was just fucking around with After Effects, there's a sort of ironic punchliney tone that felt glib... but the subject matter is immediate and serious and heartbreaking enough that it doesn't matter

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  • Madame Web

    Madame Web

    ★★

    No part of this film makes any sense if anyone thinks about it for five seconds. No actor in this film was given more than a single sentence of direction. Genuinely how the hell is this so dumb

  • Primary

    Primary

    ★★★★★

    "I know you've been standing for quite a few minutes [interjection from the crowd: 'Hours!'] - I've been standing for three months, so I know how tough it is!" -Sen. John Kennedy (D-MA)

    From October 3rd, 2022 to August 18th, 2023, I knocked on somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty thousand doors in the New York metro area for an environmental organization. Canvassing is, not to put too fine a point on it, difficult work and an even more difficult…