John McQuaig

John McQuaig

Favorite films

  • Aftersun
  • There Will Be Blood
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • Hercules

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  • Incendies

    ★★★★½

  • Synecdoche, New York

    ★★★★★

  • Anora

    ★★★★

  • Cure

    ★★★★½

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  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★★★

    Most disgustingly, hilariously realistic vomiting I've ever seen in a film.

  • Cure

    Cure

    ★★★★½





    Did I scare you?

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  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★★★½

    An overt musical reference to Vertigo was not on my list for this film... But then again, neither were a few dozens other things.

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★★

    *Amending my review from 4 1/2 to 5 stars:

    After seeing this last week, I predictably haven't stopped thinking about it and have been trying to make sense of the epilogue.

    As a composer, I spend much of my day creating, thinking about creating, thinking about art and artists and interpretation. So I've settled on an interpretation that feels so right to me that I can't help but think it's what Brady Corbet intended.

    The film's overarching themes hinge on…

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