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mm has written 76 reviews for films during 2023.

  • The Boy and the Heron

    The Boy and the Heron 2023

    ★★★★½ Rewatched 28 Dec 2023

    Dub! Pattinson is incredible and this movie makes me feel so many things.

  • Oppenheimer

    Oppenheimer 2023

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 27 Dec 2023

    Hundreds if not thousands of dorks that were under the age of 16 (myself included) when The Dark Knight came out are vindicated in their obsession.

    Incredible movie, Ludwig Göransson is a god among men.

  • The Muppet Christmas Carol

    The Muppet Christmas Carol 1992

    ★★★★ Rewatched 25 Dec 2023

    Animal is the kind of man I’ve always wanted to be. Free, insane, unbothered and always down to rock out.

  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

    Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Dec 2023

    This is a Christmas movie because the Christmas party scenes are a downright genuis stroke of screenwriting ingenuity that tethered this story together.

    And it gave us a JLC cameo and a scene of a cafeteria full of british spies singing the Russian national anthem to Stalin Claus.

    Great movie. Maybe the greatest movie idk.

  • The Iron Claw

    The Iron Claw 2023

    ★★★★ Watched 22 Dec 2023

    Gets into Oscar Bait Weepy territory a little bit, but manages to pull those moments off pretty seamlessly. Durkin keeps the pace moving despite knowing where it’s all going, and treats the characters with a tender hand. As with all great sports movies, it would have been just as effective if it were hockey, baseball, etc.

    Really impressed with this.

  • Maestro

    Maestro 2023

    ★★ Watched 20 Dec 2023

    Ah, the dreaded Sophomore Slump.

    Cooper understandably is feeling himself after A Star is Born, one of the finest debuts of recent memory. That movie, blueprint be damned had the energy and ingenuity of someone who’d been working to that point for their entire lives.

    Maestro finds him in both Prestige Director AND Cool Shot mode, which are very dangerous places to be, especially when you’re thrust into the former so quickly.

    The images he and Matthew Libatique compose are…

  • The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

    The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial 2023

    ★★★★ Watched 09 Dec 2023

    Maybe the key ingredient to making a great movie is just to let Jason Clarke interrogate people with an escalating amount of intensity.

  • Napoleon

    Napoleon 2023

    ★★★ Watched 03 Dec 2023

    This is probably the most I’ve ever liked Phoenix, which makes sense because his and Napoleon’s naturally weird energy perfectly complement each other.

    Not as good as The Last Duel, but Ridley’s still got it!

  • American Fiction

    American Fiction 2023

    ★★★★ Watched 02 Dec 2023

    Sterling K. Brown’s work in this is a great example of a performance that deserves a lot of praise for its realism and lack of showiness; it’s a skill we should recognize more often.

  • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

    The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 2013

    ★★★★½ Rewatched 26 Nov 2023

    Phil picked his “I guess I should be in a franchise movie here and there” projects like the best of ‘em, and crushed it every time. Miss him.

  • The Hunger Games

    The Hunger Games 2012

    ★★★★ Rewatched 25 Nov 2023

    Say what you will about the filmmaking choices, but the casting is just off-the-charts good. This also made for an interesting watch post Songbirds and Snakes.

    Great concept, great execution, these movies are really good!

  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

    The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 2023

    ★★★★ Watched 20 Nov 2023

    "Experience the origin of X villain!” has never been an idea that really appeals to me (for the obvious reason that mystery good) or has been truly nailed, so I was ready to not like this.

    I didn't! This was pretty good. The last time I thought about the Snow character (a good but not great cinematic baddie) was the Mockingjay one-two dick punch, so I essentially came into this with a clean slate, so I gotta admit how taken…

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