Adam Barker

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Favorite films

  • Oppenheimer
  • Star Wars
  • Alien
  • City of God

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  • Death of a Unicorn

    ★½

  • Spring Breakers

    ★★½

  • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    ★★½

  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    ★★★★½

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  • Death of a Unicorn

    Death of a Unicorn

    ★½

    Jurassic Park fan-fiction from a team that read the Harry Potter books one too many times. The safest, least interesting take on the eat the rich trope possible.

  • Spring Breakers

    Spring Breakers

    ★★½

    Come for the banging early 2010’s soundtrack and barely dressed starlets frolicking in the waves, and stay for the fever dream of FOMO, violence, drugs, alcohol, and self-actualisation.

    Save yourself the airfare and watch Spring Breakers, it really is the entire American experience summed up in 90 short minutes.

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★½

    I mostly disagreed with Namwali Serpell's essay decrying the way that the successful movies of today are bludgeoning audiences over the head with absolute, unambiguous messaging that could not possibly be misinterpreted, but then I watched Black Bag.

    A movie about, ostensibly, the best of the best spies and undercover agents, where every single conversation between these supposedly professional liars has not a single word of subtext, subtly, or intrigue. Every character openly and clearly states exactly what they are…

  • Interstellar

    Interstellar

    ★★★★★

    The silence in Interstellar is nothing short of awe-inspiring. For those brief moments not a single member of the audience in the packed Metreon IMAX theater moved or even breathed; the only sound was the persistent chattering of the projector.

    The experience of being completely engulfed in the grandeur of Interstellar with 450 other spellbound movie nerds is unlike anything else. There is so much to unpack that a second viewing is very much required but I will now be chasing that first-time Interstellar feeling, perhaps forever.