Tad Donovan

Tad Donovan

Favorite films

  • The Last Waltz
  • Reservoir Dogs
  • Parasite
  • BlacKkKlansman

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  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

  • The Substance

    ★★★½

  • Emilia Pérez

    ★★

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★★★

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  • Terrifier 2

    Terrifier 2

    ★★★★

    Oh damn there’s plot now

  • Joker: Folie à Deux

    Joker: Folie à Deux

    ★★½

    They were really close to something solid

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  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire

    Portrait of a Lady on Fire

    ★★★★

    I remember last year when Film Twitter was making a massive deal about this movie. During that time, I was so enamored with Parasite that I couldn’t understand how people could talk about any other movie. Needless to say, my delusion has been cured after watching this French masterpiece.
    Marianne (Noémie Merlant) is an artist hired to paint a portrait of bride-to-be Héloïse (Adèle Haenel). Due to her reluctance to be married, as well as her mother’s (Valeria Golino) total…

  • Barbie

    Barbie

    ★★★★

    Because Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is kind of the genesis of the Barbenheimer phenomenon, it feels like many people engaging in the double feature dismiss it as the butt end of the joke. I’ve seen people treat it as though it were a children’s film (it’s PG-13 please don’t bring your toddlers), or even as a “cute” way to recover from Oppenheimer. As a quick reminder of the minds behind this film it is directed by Greta Gerwig (Little Women, Ladybird),…