Alan Sepinwall

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Holiday 1938

Watched 14 Dec 2024 2

This was the only Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn movie I hadn’t seen before. It’s striking that their dynamic is so different in all four, yet always so effective. I love their easy chemistry in this one, even if the ending feels awfully rushed even by the rom com standards of the period.
Shoot 'Em Up 2007

Rewatched 12 Dec 2024

A gloriously stupid movie that is perhaps the ideal thing to watch on a treadmill.

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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

★★½ Watched 26 Oct 2023 27

I didn’t love this? Great performances, the usual Scorsese technical brilliance, etc. But telling the story from this POV for 3.5 hours felt monotonous and frustrating. I wanted way more Lily Gladstone than we were given. Scorsese rightly recognized that the movie shouldn’t be about the FBI agents, but instead of trying to tell an Osage story that spotlighted the Osage characters, he instead pivoted to a dim, uninteresting goon who keeps making the same choices over a really long stretch of screen time.
The Holdovers 2023

★★★★½ Watched 26 Nov 2023 1

what a lovely, lovely movie. The kind you want to live in a while, even though it’s about three sad people stuck together in what seems at first like a miserable experience. Giamatti, Randolph, and Dominic Sessa are all fantastic.

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