tmathiowe

tmathiowe

Favorite films

  • Le Samouraï
  • A Serious Man
  • Three Days of the Condor
  • To Catch a Thief

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  • The Brutalist

    ★★★

  • The Substance

    ★★

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★½

  • Die Hard

    ★★★★

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★

    Is every movie over 3hrs long automatically a masterpiece for you ppl or what?

    Other thoughts taken offline.

  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★

    This movie is very RedBox

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  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    ★½

    Interminable rehashing of the last 3 years of Hollywood storytelling. The multiverse is overwrought and what made the first one so fun has been diluted here resulting in saccharine nonsense made for screenshot culture (e.g., spider-man pointing meme). The animation is quite good and the people in the theatre seemed to enjoy it, but I am officially tapping out of the superhero game.

  • Maestro

    Maestro

    ★★

    An entirely meretricious exercise. The movie has cinematic verve to it albeit one that is not served by Cooper’s performance. I learned nothing about Leonard Bernstein that I otherwise did not know; my understanding of classical music was not deepened; however, I’ve learned more than I ever cared to about Bradley Cooper watching this.