mm has written 76 reviews for films during 2023.
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The Dark Knight 2008
Does anyone else work themselves into a blind rage thinking about how Heath Ledger isn’t with us anymore, but Henry Kissinger is like 100 and still hanging around?
Anyways, banger movie this is. Looks great on 35mm. Happy Batman Day!
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011
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.
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The Irishman 2019
I’ve been eager to revisit this after Killers of the Flower Moon. Being only a few minutes longer, it’s interesting to see how Marty utilizes each film’s length and to what purpose.
Killers spends every available minute immersing you into a time and place that’s been both overlooked and underserved before now, using its final minutes to reckon with its own role in the tragedy-to-entertainment cycle. Irishman puts a character’s glory days and shopping of their own casket 50 years later…
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Interstellar 2014
Two tears, 15 seconds apart and one from each eye ran down my face in the final meeting between Coop and Murphy.
Let the record show I’ve been on this movie’s corner the minute I stepped out of the theater after seeing it for the first time. I’m registered to vote and everything.
Nolan: what a guy. What a dude.
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The Godfather Part II 1974
Bigger, longer, deeper, meaner. As all sequels should be. Every time I watch this I’m blown away at how perfect it is, and how every choice made was the right one.
After watching this, part of me always wants to immediately run it back for round two.
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GoodFellas 1990
I would have liked a quick scene of Karen explaining her interior design choices with that second house. Really wild stuff.
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The Batman 2022
Might not ever get over that Falcone reveal and how clunky and lame it is in a movie that is otherwise perfect.
Part II soon, please!
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The Godfather 1972
I think the key moment to this story is when Michael lights Enzo’s cigarette for him outside of the hospital, and he looks down at his hands to see that they’re steady.
Fucking amazing.
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017
Rian Johnson went so hard and made so many awesome decisions with this that he broke the American psyche and made just about every franchise property (please save us, Spider-Verse) since at least 10% worse than it would have been had social media not existed.
If the night Force Awakens came out was the last time where being online was somewhat fun, the night The Last Jedi came out proved Newton’s Third Law applied to online as well as physics.…
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Tenet 2020
Revisiting this was an interesting experience. It’s of course staggering from a filmmaking perspective, but the center of it still rings a bit hollow, and I think I know why.
It’s Washington and Branagh. Both are wonderful actors in their own right, but I think this particular story would have benefited from a couple of true movie stars taking those roles.
The first ones that come to mind are Michael B. Jordan for The Protagonist (still stand by this name as…
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2011
Fincher makes this shit look easy.
From the North to the South, Ebudæ unto Khartoum
From the deep Sea of Clouds to the Island of the Moon
Carry me on the waves to the lands I've never been
Carry me on the waves to the lands I've never seen
We can sail, we can sail with the Orinoco Flow
We can sail, we can sail
(Sail away, sail away, sail away)
We can steer, we can near
With Rob Dickins at the wheel
We can sigh, say goodbye Ross and his dependency
We can sail, we can sail
(Sail away, sail away, sail away)