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seanmooneyii

Favorite films

  • Good Will Hunting
  • About Time
  • The Great Beauty
  • In the Mood for Love

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  • The Greatest Showman

    ★★★½

  • Death of a Unicorn

    ★★★

  • Days of Being Wild

    ★★★★

  • Only the River Flows

    ★★★★

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  • The Greatest Showman

    The Greatest Showman

    ★★★½

    Needed a mood boost, and hot damn that did the trick

  • Death of a Unicorn

    Death of a Unicorn

    ★★★

    “Philanthropy is just reputation laundering for the oligarchy.” 

    This movie had two main things going on. Initially we see an overarching theme, really only focused on in the first act, of the wealthy donning the facade of goodwill as a distraction so they can continue to extract wealth from the innocent. And the second, once the unicorns started impaling the household staff, of a father and daughter finally dealing with their own relationship after the loss of the wife and…

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  • Captain America: Brave New World

    Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★★

    For a story about a guy with wings this was probably one of the most grounded, and least funny, Marvel movies in a long time. Mission Impossible with a Batman and Robin (or Tony and Rhodey) dynamic. I was into all of the hand to hand combat, but Sam needs that serum bad.

    Interesting timing that this comes out in the first month of the new administration. An unhinged president with rage issues in his first hundred days that’s puppeted…

  • A Matter of Life and Death

    A Matter of Life and Death

    ★★★★

    It’s a Wonderful Life but George Bailey has survivor’s guilt and Clarence is French

    All of the visuals pertaining to the afterlife were incredible, especially for the time period - the escalator, the skylight looking down onto earth, the eyelid closing, and the wide shot of the courtroom - superb 

    The parallel between Peter’s mental state and his visions of an afterlife is clear, but I’m not sure what to make of the anti-English hostility from the American prosecutor in…

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