mm has written 105 reviews for films during 2022.
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Well, this was literally everything I feared coming into a 3-hour Damien Chazelle movie about early 20th century Hollywood.
On his filmography, Whiplash is clearly a knockout that will live on well past when we’re all gone and First Man is a long-overdue rewatch for me. The memory of that film’s final scene is still something I think about often.
La La Land was a movie that I fully bought into the hype of. Over the years it became the…
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★★★★½ Rewatched 28 Dec 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The “piece of shit” bit went completely over my head on the first two watches.
Very good.
This movie bangs, and Johnson’s choice to make the big mystery that the villain is an idiot is so so good.
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★★★★★ Rewatched 19 Dec 2022
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I guess every Spielberg movie I watch, new or old after this will be spent understanding it in the context of The Fabelmans.
Divorced parents, a kid running off to live a fantastical life in a bunch of different worlds, all in the pursuit of making what’s broken whole again. There’s something there.
Oh and John Williams cranking out his best score of all time. Legend.
Good shit. The best shit. I hope Spielberg buries us all.
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★★★★★ Watched 17 Dec 2022
I was high off an edible through this whole movie.
Even if I wasn’t I might still be saying this is the most overwhelmingly beautiful made film of all time.
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Very cute, good Christmas vibes, Jude Law etc. but if Hollywood’s going to make content of anything now, I want a comedy/thriller about this piece of trivia from IMDB.
“A few months after the movie came out the popularity of "house swapping" was on the rise. So much so in fact that police in England had to issue a warning against swapping homes with strangers due to identity fraud and murders.”
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★★★★★ Rewatched 30 Nov 2022
This dips a little when it gets into plot stuff and moves away from bathouse hijinks, but still what a goddamn picture.
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★★★★★ Rewatched 28 Nov 2022
I mean, god. Just…man. Denis…bro. Science fiction…fuuuuuckkk. “Come back to me”….UGHHHHH
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I have no idea where I heard it, but someone once said film is their favorite art form because it's a combination all of the others put together. (edit: I figured out the best way to google search this and it was Sydney fuckin' Pollack! Go off, king!!)
That's always stuck with me because A) it's true and B) you often see musicians, writers, visual artists and the like dabble into filmmaking, and rarely the other way around.
How that…
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★★★★½ Rewatched 25 Nov 2022
Glass Onion…Knives Out….The Last Jedi.
I’m not normally the type who’s favorites of something could change on any given day, but damn it, any one of those Rian Johnson bangers has a strong case for my top spot of his filmography.
I’m not putting him in their eschelon, but Johnson, like Scorsese, Nolan, or Spielberg, feels like he was born to tell stories. He might be an all-time favorite when all is said and done.
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The spiritual successor to Spotlight, which was the spirutual successor to The Insider, which was the spiritual successor to All The Presidents Men which was…. you get it.
I’m forever stuck between wanting to watch at least one elevated journalism movie every couple years and the realization that these movies only get made about the most heinous fucking topics imagineable.
Can already feel this one getting slept on and I am choosing to get preemptively mad about it.
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★★★★ Rewatched 15 Nov 2022
Duncan Jones, what happened to you
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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
While this has the usual Marvel stuff that annoys me, there is a transcendent moment of “we just do not care anymore” that was a real sight to behold.
This has a moment where a character literally just rattles off Disney’s top three pieces of IP as examples of the trope they were in the progress of finishing. I am choosing to believe that was a note from Chapek.
Other than that, it’s fine! As much as it could be given…
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