Sam Skirry

Sam Skirry

Favorite films

  • The Graduate
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • Perfect Blue
  • The Set-Up

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  • Futureworld

    ★★

  • The Laughing Woman

    ★★★½

  • The Telephone Book

    ★★½

  • Legal Smuggling with Christine Choy

    ★★★

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  • Futureworld

    Futureworld

    ★★

    “That’s bingo, Socks!” - the best Lynchian dialogue David Lynch never wrote

  • September 5

    September 5

    ★★★

    I’m so sick of movies shooting “realism” by making everything blue or black. Look at the actual footage of Jim McKay and Peter Jennings reporting on the situation and how nice and bright it is, and then look at the new footage they shot and how muddy and dark it is. It’s incredibly distracting. If Dog Day Afternoon could shoot realistically and colorfully in 1975, then why can’t 2024’s September 5? As usual, Leonie Benesch steals the show and I have yet to see a bad performance from her.

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  • Wild Tales

    Wild Tales

    ★★★★½

    Argentine directors not hiring Ricardo Darín challenge (impossible)! 

    Jk love you Ricky!

  • Glass Onion

    Glass Onion

    ★★★

    I know Ryan Johnson is trying to do a parody of Elon Musk and those type of rich cronies that seem to orbit the Twitter-sphere now but something about it doesn’t click. I’m going to make a comparison and everyone will hate me for it but whatever. When Orison Welles made Citizen Kane he was “punching up” (going for someone higher in social or political rank) to William Randolph Hearst who owned loads and loads of newspapers all across the United…