This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim 2024
Seeing an adult 2D animated movie in the theaters is all I dream about.
EKL #5
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The Order 2024
A textbook example of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. Cat and mouse thrillers are up there as one of my favorite sub genres, and this one ranks up with the best of them thanks to Justin Kurzel's steady hand, rock-solid performances and crisp visuals.
The pacific northwest is having a moment in film! Please keep those tax breaks coming, because I need more rivers, forests and lakes and less deserts at the movies.
If you liked this, give Oliver Stone's Talk Radio a watch!
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Hundreds of Beavers 2022
A rare DNF. Not because I didn’t like it, but because I’m an idiot and can’t focus when the Yankees could theoretically made a trade or free agent signing at any minute.
Will definitely revisit this in the future. This was so so so impressive and clever.
Juan Soto I miss you so much 💔
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Interstellar 2014
I full on sobbed in seat F12 of the IMAX theater at AMC Lincoln Square this morning.
This movie is an absolute masterwork in every sense, and the 70mm IMAX format made this a once-in-a-lifetime audio/visual experience that’s right up there with seeing U2 at Sphere.
I never feel more alive than when art is able to move me the way this does.
Chris Nolan undefeated.
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Murder on the Orient Express 2017
The choice to sprinkle some of the Armstrong connections into the story rather than doing all that in the end is understandable, but much less fun.
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Watchmen: Chapter I 2024
Pretty good! Despite being a carbon copy of the graphic novel (as it should be tbh, don’t mess with perfection) there’s a handful of really cool choices made that really make the story come alive visually.
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Conclave 2024
Nothing hits quite like a pulpy, throwaway airport thriller turned into a prestige drama. That this flows this smoothly and builds to a satisfying emotional and almost lyrical denoument makes it all the more wonderful.
In this particular moment in time (I will never write that phrase again, I promise) I also think it’s an important statement that we are not our institutions, and our institutions are not us. That it’s important to release ourselves from the past. How a…
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Glass Onion 2022
Easily the neatest trick this movie pulls off is not drawing attention to the many many seemingly throwaway lines and moments that make it all come together in the end.
I need Wake Up Dead Man yesterday.
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