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mm has written 171 reviews for films during 2019.

  • Skyfall

    Skyfall 2012

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 25 Dec 2019

    License To Thrill: James Bond Rewatch Part 3

    Skyfall is a Christmas movie. Because they say Christmas in it and I watched it on Christmas. Discussion over.

    It is also the best Bond movie, because it works both as a fun spy adventure and as a movie.

    Bond grows, hurts and is made vulnerable, a rare occurrence for this series. He’s also given an adversary that is garish, intimidating as well as a commentary on this world as well as…

  • Casino Royale

    Casino Royale 2006

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Dec 2019

    License To Thrill: James Bond Rewatch Part 1

    As someone who rewatched the Bond series in order many years ago, the change this series took between Tomorrow Never Dies and Casino Royale is just as if not more extreme than the
    change between Batman and Robin and Batman Begins. 

    The radical pendulum swing from the campiness of prior films comes close to feeling like an insult. Since Martin Campbell is behind the camera (after doing a similar recalibration with Goldeneye) this…

  • Watchmen

    Watchmen 2019

    ★★★★★ Watched 15 Dec 2019

    Best season of TV since True Detective S1*. Lindelof revamped this story for modern times and recontextualized old canon in ways that stayed true to Moore’s original intent, or at least it feels that way.

    Really hope the show ends here, as this lone season makes for an excellent epilogue to the comic.

    *I barely watch TV so this opinion is v uninformed.

  • The Irishman

    The Irishman 2019

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 13 Dec 2019

    It was no more complicated than that.

    There are no less than 30 moments in this movie that send a chill up my spine.

  • Knives Out

    Knives Out 2019

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 10 Dec 2019

    5/5 stars. 10/10 grade. A spot on my top 100 of all time.

    Looper and The Last Jedi are masterpieces and so is Knives Out.

    “Have some more cookies!”

    CINEMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • The Irishman

    The Irishman 2019

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 29 Nov 2019

    Tommy DeVito deserved to die.

    Jimmy Hoffa didn’t.

    That’s why this is Marty’s masterpiece.

  • The Irishman

    The Irishman 2019

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 14 Nov 2019

    The fact that this is already #8 on my top 100 of all time should tell you all you need to know when it comes to my love for this movie.

    And like the sun, it will rise.

  • Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs 2015

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 06 Nov 2019

    Bring me the head of Steve Wozniak.

    Still blows my mind how damn great Seth Rogen is in this movie.

  • The Irishman

    The Irishman 2019

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 02 Nov 2019

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

    I reserve the right to change my mind later due to recency bias (although I’m sure I won’t) but fuck it: this is my new favorite Scorsese film. And probably one of my 15 or so favorite movies ever.

    Let’s do some notes, baby.

    SPOILERS
    - The opening tracking shot through a nursing home perfectly set the tone for what this would be. Gone is the hustle and bustle of the Copacabana. This is a still, sterile place where you…

  • Spirited Away

    Spirited Away 2001

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 27 Oct 2019

    The best animated film of all time.

  • GoodFellas

    GoodFellas 1990

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 24 Oct 2019

    Losing my goddamn mind waiting to see The Irishman again next week. With this, Scorsese tells the beginning and some of the middle of a life in the mob.

    The Irishman finishes up that story with the ending many deserve but don’t get.

  • GoodFellas

    GoodFellas 1990

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 10 Sep 2019

    Goodfellas just might be the great American movie. And it’s almost all thanks to Mr. Joseph Pesci.

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