mm has written 104 reviews for films during 2022.
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The Dark Knight 2008
That first third still needs about 10 extra minutes to breathe, but man, from the interrogation scene to Alfred consoling Batman is one of the greatest stretches of any of these things. For whatever reason, Joker switching Rachel & Harvey's locations really impacted me more on this watch than it ever had before. Such a perfect, cruel twisting of the knife.
But as I get older and see this country lose its mind more and more every day, Nolan’s perspective on…
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011
Add an extra 20 or 25 minutes here and there (especially that choppy-ish first act) and this is a perfect movie. As is, it's in the conversation.
I'm so happy that this exists.
Long live my sad spy daddies.
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Interstellar 2014
Coming up on eight years since it came out, looking at the letterboxd score as a crude but helpful gauge it seems Interstellar has settled in as the seminal sci-fi masterwork I’ve been championing it as from the start.
Nolan’s true masterpiece is as bold and ambitious (in scale, scope and emotion) as any movie that’s been released in the last twenty-something years. Interstellar marked the start of Nolan’s official challenge to Spielberg’s late 80s-early 2000s run where he had all…
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The Godfather Part II 1974
The first movie I watched at my first New York apartment that I have all to myself. Yay!
This 4K transfer is unbelievable.
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V for Vendetta 2005
One of the sturdiest blockbusters of recent memory, and having read the graphic novel, I am confident in saying it told that story better by being a smidge more digestable.
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Heat 1995
Pacino riffing about editors and not answering questions like the adorable old man he is?
Bob outright refusing to play along with anything in his life ever?
Some random guy they got instead of Mann?
A STUNNING 4k restoration?
Skull-crushing sound?
Catching at least three people writing their letterboxd reviews on the downtown A train after the screening?
Oh yeah, this ruled.
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Heat 1995
I know I say this a lot but this really could be the best movie ever made.
The shootout is perhaps the loudest thing I have ever heard in a movie theater. You could feel those echoes down to the fucking marrow.
And of course given this was my first theatrical experience with the movie. It was cool to see it with a crowd that hoots and hollers along with Pacino’s truly euphoric performance.
Movies are good.
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The Batman 2022
I love every thing about this… except the script.
Over two hours of mystery, creepy clues and suspicion and the big reveal is that the most famous mafioso in Batman lore is… exactly who he was in Batman Begins and The Long Halloween, his two most famous appearances.
I’m just confused about how Reeves expected us to react to all of this, and viewing it through the lens of someone not as plugged into the Batman lore, is a mafia…
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The Batman 2022
✅ Godfather reference
✅ Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy reference
✅ Made by a real director of sight and sound with narrative focus to the story and not a million set ups for movies being pre-vis’d to death 3 years before a single crew member is hired.The narrative might not have the payoffs Reeves thinks it does, but literally everything else about The Batman is done to perfection, unrivaled in this subgenre since the caped crusader’s spiritual predecessor of Bale…
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The Godfather 1972
I need you. And I love you.
While I still get caught up in the mafia politics, the character interactions and immaculate story construction, these last few watches I have thought more about the thematic element of America in these movies.
Of course it starts with the big speech, but I like how the theme of the Corleone’s assimilation into the country is woven in in subtle ways, with Kay, and Michael’s admission to her in the quote above, as…