J.D.

J.D.

looking for answers from the great beyond

Favorite films

  • The Truman Show
  • Perfect Days
  • The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
  • Léon: The Professional

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • A Man Called Otto

    ★★★½

  • ME

    ★★½

  • I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★

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  • Queer

    Queer

    ★★

    Guadagnino's Queer is a mess. It is a damn shame since I walked into the theater wanting to love it, but I just couldn't.

    The film delivers on what it promised its mainstream audience: explicit gay sex scenes featuring Daniel Craig, who gives the performance of a lifetime in general all throughout the film, but it fails to deliver something I like my movies to have: a clear sense of storytelling and deep connections between characters.

    In truth, Daniel Craig's…

  • Deadpool & Wolverine

    Deadpool & Wolverine

    Terrible, barely defensible. It's so convoluted and up its own ass it ends up being a parody of itself. It prostitutes and dishonors the movies it wants to pay homage to. The soundtrack is, legitimately, one of the worst I've ever heard on the big screen. Finally, the final nail in the coffin is Reynolds' ego being so big despite having less shine as a star with every passing year. People look back on his career and see his accomplishments…

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  • Tune in for Love

    Tune in for Love

    ★★★½

    “Who knew meeting someone again could be this exciting?”

    We all have that someone that we just can’t get away from no matter the distance, you find them in your thoughts more often than not, as if they were calling. The old times hunt you the more you grow up, the memories are there and the doubts of these moments meaning more to you than what they mean to the other person are also very very present. But once you…

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    ½

    I refuse to see as normal the commercial business practice Marvel is doing at the moment with films. 

    I watched this days ago and I couldn’t figure out a way to review it until now and this is my answer.

    The ending left me infuriated, everyone at my theater was in shock (not for good reason) and watching the credits roll literally took the air out of everyone I talked to afterwards.

    Cliffhangers can work if done properly, the idea…