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mm has reviewed 39 films tagged ‘home’ during 2023.

  • JFK

    JFK 1991

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 26 Feb 2023 2

    As powerful as the first time I saw it many years ago on a dark and stormy night.

    As X said, we can pick apart the who and the what all we like, but 60 years on now, the argument really can’t be made that the “why” that Oliver Stone ended up at wasn’t dead on.

    The Presidency is a transitory role, acquiesced completely to military might, and sadly every President since Jack has fully bought into the mania. And…

  • John Mulaney: Baby J

    John Mulaney: Baby J 2023

    Watched 25 Apr 2023

    So you’re telling me we can get a funny stand up special in the year 2-0-2-3 that doesn’t have 30 minutes set aside for some middle aged dork to whine about cancel culture and how it’s facism (?) that people don’t laugh at their tired & lazy jokes.

    Crazy.

    I’m glad that Drug John didn’t kill Normal John. But I do wish we got some clarity on… The Timeline.

  • 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.

  • 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 Godfather

    The Godfather 1972

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 30 Jul 2023

    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.

  • Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

    Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation 2015

    ★★★★ Rewatched 08 Jul 2023

    We don’t talk enough about how in the span of like 30 minutes movie time, Ethan Hunt drowns, is resuscitated, then gets into a car chase, crashes the car, gets into a bike chase and then crashes the bike.

  • Halloween III: Season of the Witch

    Halloween III: Season of the Witch 1982

    ★★★½ Watched 31 Oct 2023

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    Of all the possibilities that could be chosen to power a supernatural death mask, Tommy Lee Wallace picks Stongehenge. The 1980s were a magical and exciting time.

  • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

    Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2008

    ★★★ Watched 31 May 2023

    First time since the theaters in ‘08.

    It was an entertaining movie then and it is an entertaining movie now!

  • Tenet

    Tenet 2020

    ★★★★½ Rewatched 09 Apr 2023 2

    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…

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003

    ★★★★½ Rewatched 06 Feb 2023

    Took my time with this one to give it a chance to really stick the emotional landing.

    It did!

    You bow to no one.

    Good stuff. Can’t even imagine the kind of sobbing that happened in the theater back in ‘03.

  • The Menu

    The Menu 2022

    ★★★★ Watched 04 Jan 2023

    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.

  • The Godfather Part II

    The Godfather Part II 1974

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 04 Aug 2023

    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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