Derek

Derek

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  • Pastoral: To Die in the Country

    ★★★★½

  • Sleep Has Her House

    ★★★★★

  • L.A. Confidential

    ★★★★

  • Dreams

    ★★★½

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  • Sleep Has Her House

    Sleep Has Her House

    ★★★★★

    if i ever get to vote for sight and sound this movie will probably be on my list

  • L.A. Confidential

    L.A. Confidential

    ★★★★

    GORGEOUS SCREENPLAY makes me want to start a bidding war

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  • Nimona

    Nimona

    ★★

    Did not like this. I like the anti fascist messaging and the queer subtext on paper, but thought it was really hamfisted and unproductive in its execution. This is capitalism co-opting revolutionary messages badly. Which sucks, because after skimming information about the comics, it seems like the source material single handedly fixes most of my criticisms, so I don’t know why this had to turn out the way it did.

    To start, I never got over the animation style. People…

  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★★

    the definition of a mediocre, paint by numbers biopic that largely consists of people staring at timothee chalamet bob dylan as he sings each song almost in its entirety. 75% of the movie is just watching people have some sort of Deep Complicated Internal Reaction to his music. script is embarrassingly flat and lifeless, often gets hung up on stupid exposition trying to contextualize the plot. for a movie supposedly about the impact this enigmatic man had on others through…

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