• Interstellar

    Interstellar

    ★★★★★

    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…

  • Oppenheimer

    Oppenheimer

    ★★★★★

    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 Batman

    The Batman

    ★★★★½

    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!

  • The Batman

    The Batman

    ★★★★½

    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…

  • The Dark Knight

    The Dark Knight

    ★★★★★

    I’m not sure I’ll ever get over Ledger in this movie. Few “big” performances since have even come close to the level of immersion he got to here.

    It’s the hair, the makeup, and the posture, but what sells it most for me is that damn voice.

    How does an Australian make himself sound like that? What the hell did he even hear that set him on the course to get there? And how does he make it work so…

  • Inception

    Inception

    ★★★★½

    It’s so unbelievably cool that Nolan just refuses to do anything franchise-y with this when an Inception video game franchise would make at least seven billion dollars

  • Knives Out

    Knives Out

    ★★★★★

    Once again I am banging the drum that Rian Johnson is the most gifted storyteller in the movies right now. He knows how they move, what we’re expecting and how to defy those expectations in the most exciting of ways.

    Glass Onion now please.

  • Spirited Away

    Spirited Away

    ★★★★★

    This dips a little when it gets into plot stuff and moves away from bathouse hijinks, but still what a goddamn picture.

  • The Wolf of Wall Street

    The Wolf of Wall Street

    ★★★★★

    It’s nice that we got one last great performance from Jonah Hill before the next 10+ years happened.

  • The Menu

    The Menu

    ★★★★

    An absolute banger.

    No mussin, no fussin, just a tight little movie that makes good on is premise. Every scene and concept here flows fluidly, building to a wonderfully dark finale where King Psycho turns what should be his heaven into his own personal hell.

  • Forrest Gump

    Forrest Gump

    ★★★★★

    I’m sorry I will just never be able to get mad about a movie that goes out of its way to show us George Wallace and Ronald Reagan getting popped.

  • Inglourious Basterds

    Inglourious Basterds

    ★★★★★

    There’s so much to say about this, an essentially perfect movie, but the thing I most want to call out is Tarantino’s insane choice of using like six different fonts in the opening credits.

    Please don’t stop making movies, sir.

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