Andrew

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Favorite films

  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • Blade Runner
  • My Neighbor Totoro

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  • The French Connection

    ★★★½

  • Bullet Train

    ★★½

  • TÁR

    ★★

  • blur: To the End

    ★★★½

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  • The Boy and the Heron

    The Boy and the Heron

    ★★★

    This made no sense. Miyazaki is off the rails now. Beautiful, but when you peer inside, there’s not much there.

  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    ★★★½

    They made a good decision to make changes to Chani and her story, giving her more depth and a weightier impact to the plot. Zendaya kills it, giving the best performance of the film in my mind. By contrast, Chalamet, whose acting ability is not in doubt, was nevertheless hard to accept as a powerful, ruthless warrior; everything about him, from his frame to his movements, just screams thespian. He comes across as vulnerable rather than intimidating. I think he…

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  • The Irishman

    The Irishman

    ★★½

    More like the geriatric goodfellas.

    It’s not uncommon to see the makeup artists work their magic in films to make actors look older for those later-in-life moments. I can’t recall many other films where they’ve had to revert to their perhaps more traditional role of making people look younger. It doesn’t go so well. De Niro walks awkwardly and with the hunched shoulders that he seems to have acquired in his later years. He doesn’t seem like he’d be an…

  • Interstellar

    Interstellar

    ★★★★

    Maybe the best thing about this is Hans Zimmer’s amazing organ score.