mm has written 129 reviews for films during 2020.
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Mank 2020
As you can see in my bio, my star rating philosophy is very simple. I judge a film both on its quality and my own enjoyment.
Mank is a 4.5 on the former, but a 2 on the latter, so here we are, stuck in the middle but shading towards the craftmanship, which is exceptional. The meat of the story unfortunately is not comparable to Fincher’s prior work, of which I’ve loved every film without Edward Norton and a 3…
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 2006
This film says a lot about our society.
SBC doesn’t get enough credit as an artist. This is just so funny and revealing of the cultural rot we have to deal with.
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Hillary 2020
Looking at the review spread for this one, it’s obvious that people’s opinions of Hillary are influencing their opinion of the documentary. Is that fair? Probably, because I certainly left this with the feeling that HRC was telling her story more than people were telling a story about her.
My opinion of Hillary? Mixed. From a politcal point of view, I’m a pretty staunch Democratic Socialist, and 2 of my last three votes for executive office are for Bernie Sanders.…
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Batman Forever 1995
Kilmer: really, really good Batman. The only thing about this performance that annoys me is I wish he’d gotten a Nolan-esque script to work with. He might be the best actor to play Batman so far.
Jones: Yikes. But he hates Carrey so that made it fun. Two-Face should never be a “supervillain” imo. Even in the Arkham games I find the concept of him as a Crime Boss silly. He should be a tragic figure…
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Shirley 2020
Michael Stuhlbarg and Elisabeth Moss are coincidentally my stock answers for the question of who the most underrated actors in Hollywood are, so it was quite fun to see them act off each other. I've liked Moss more in other things, but I'm not sure if I can say the same for Stuhlbarg. The jump he took from being a gregarious, warm professor-of-your-dreams to a cold fury in the dissertation scene and then…
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The High Note 2020
Charity: Color of Change
For some inexplicable reason, I seem to have a fair amount of followers on here, so I guess I’ll put that to good use.
For the forseeable future, I’m going to put links to organizations that deserve your mone in my posts. Starting with Color of Change, which does incredible work.
The High Note is good! It was a nice mental break from the horror show that is America, but it still has a nice social edge to it. Tracee Ellis Ross and Dakota Johnson were electric. Love a good movie about assistant life!
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Raising Arizona 1987
Holly Hunter did this and Broadcast News in ‘87. What a queen.
Overall I really liked this! Rating would be higher but movies in a desert setting with a lot of sweat and dirt make me uncomfortable. I apologize for my brain!
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Avengers: Infinity War 2018
I wanted to watch Endgame so I fast forwarded through the boring parts.
Ex: Thor building the axe, scenes with Thanos and Gamora.