Thomas Deignan

Thomas Deignan Pro

Favorite films

  • Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
  • Raging Bull
  • Hunger
  • Pulp Fiction

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • X-Men

    ★★★

  • The French Connection

    ★★★½

  • Magazine Dreams

    ★½

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  • X-Men

    X-Men

    ★★★

    Saw this while browsing my watchlist a short movie to watch. Imagine it: a franchise starter under two hours. Inconceivable just 25 years later. I’m probably overrating it but I really enjoyed this movie. It handles starting in the middle and introducing it’s large character gallery extremely well, it balances realism and comicbookyness extremely well, the effects, practical and CGI, look great, great visual language, tight writing, wonderful small scale. Plus, what other superhero movie you know is built around the Holocaust? Plus plus, rare 2000s Twin Towers skyline in movie. 

    6/10

  • The French Connection

    The French Connection

    ★★★½

    I think age (and cinema building on this for half a century) has made the lowness, griminess, and pessimisim of this movie less affecting, but there's three areas in which The French Connection still shines. First, Hackman's electric, dynamic performance. Second, the tactful poetry in how this film depicts the seperation between rich and poor and Popeye's rage-inducing jealousy towards the filthy rich. Lastly, the score, one of the best in cinema. Discordant strings and drones, more at home in…

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  • The Wild Robot

    The Wild Robot

    ★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.