Xander Spies

Xander Spies

Favorite films

  • There Will Be Blood
  • The Fountain
  • The Master
  • Babylon

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  • The Electric State

    ★★

  • Arcadian

    ★★

  • Watcher

    ★½

  • A Complete Unknown

    ★★★★

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  • The Electric State

    The Electric State

    ★★

    Is this supposed to be funny or sad?

  • Arcadian

    Arcadian

    ★★

    The apocalypse is old. It lingers in the cinema like a half-dead thing, shuffling along, too stubborn to collapse entirely. Arcadian adds little to its decay. Nicolas Cage is here but mostly watches from the sidelines, a faint echo of something grander. The real work is left to the others—competent, but never dazzling.

    The monsters, at least, are interesting. Clever things, staring into the abyss of human frailty, hinting at histories we’ll never know. And yet, what does it amount…

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  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★★★★

    The Complete Unknown is a film that thrashes. Not in the way that a man drowns, but in the way that something electric has to find the next live wire, the next circuit to complete before it burns out. Bob Dylan, as played by Timothée Chalamet, is a person always mid-escape, not from anything external, not from fame or politics or love, but from himself. His rebellion isn't against systems or expectations, but against the unbearable weight of his own…

  • Thor: Love and Thunder

    Thor: Love and Thunder

    ★★½

    I don't think this is as bad as people make it out to be. That being said, it's still bad.