Sam Rosevear

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Favorite films

  • Mulholland Drive
  • Memoria
  • Certain Women
  • Beau Travail

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  • Rebel Ridge

    ★★★★

  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

    ★★★★★

  • The Wedding Planner

    ★★

  • Conclave

    ★★★★

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  • Rebel Ridge

    Rebel Ridge

    ★★★★

    Still razor sharp and purely thrilling. One of the absolute best of last year. Aaron Pierre gives a bona fide movie star performance here. When he chases that bus down… that’s the stuff.

  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

    Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

    ★★★★★

    “The West has become so very… ugly.”

    Cold War espionage thriller as truth — The Great War’s long shadow. Glory is dead. Broken men play life-and-death parlor games. Everyone is a chess piece, everyone is disposable. Your friends are sent to die for whispers of half-remembered secrets that were planted by an enemy that you never see.

    This movie is a masterpiece because it effectively communicates that ugly, shadowy mundanity, but remains so thrilling. It’s opening old case files. It’s…

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  • Space Jam: A New Legacy

    Space Jam: A New Legacy

    “I have seen it all,” he whispered. “I have seen Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker cheer while LeBron James’ son holds millions of innocent people hostage. I have watched Don Cheadle turn into a slightly taller, stronger Don Cheadle as the guys from A Clockwork Orange applaud. I have seen the most talented basketball player of all time beg everyone to call him a ‘good dad’ during a 2+ hour Warner Bros. commercial made inside of a computer. I have seen it all, and it is just so sad.”

    Not good!

  • The Talented Mr. Ripley

    The Talented Mr. Ripley

    ★★★★

    For some reason I always thought I knew what this movie was without ever having actually seen it. Turns out it’s consistently very good and often excellent, and goes to places I was really surprised by. 

    I think the first half is slightly stronger than the second, if only because so much of the film’s most interesting ideas are still borderline subtext, while the closing hour leaves little to the imagination. But it’s always sharp; so gorgeous and scathing with…