Emmett

Emmett

Favorite films

  • Back to the Future
  • Chinatown
  • Minari
  • High Noon

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  • Autumn Sonata

    ★★★★

  • Black Bag

    ★★★½

  • The Passion of Anna

    ★★★

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★½

    Two bangers released theatrically two months apart! $2 million and $50 million budgets! And he shot and edited both of them! The man is a machine. Sleek, stylish and sexy. Decent amount of Koepp’s exposition kinda goes over your head but the dialogue and performances backed by Soderbergh’s mastery of the craft makes this a damn good time at the movies. Nobody shoots a 12 page dinner scene better than this guy. Truly funny at many points as well, theater…

  • The Passion of Anna

    The Passion of Anna

    ★★★

    Only Ingmar could get away with sneaking in a dream sequence serving as the sequel to another film entirely. That and the interviews breaking the fourth wall make me think he really just went f it with this one. Feels very loose and sardonic and kind of all over the place, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but I can’t tell if I’m more lax about it because he’s my dude now. Realized here that Liv Ullmann has an uncanny…

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  • Captain America: Brave New World

    Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★

    My buddy Jeff asked me to go to this with him (ironically the only other movie we’ve seen together was Endgame when we studied abroad in 2019) and I’m never one to say no to a movie date and I went into this with an open mind but son they weren’t lying about them test screenings and reshoots. Fact that this cost $370 million really just grinds my gears. Funny how the more money you throw at the wall the worse…

  • Glass Onion

    Glass Onion

    ★★

    Rian Johnson is that guy you meet in line for the bathroom at some party who brags about how genius his screenplay is. I don’t care Rian. I just don’t