Jason Smith

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  • Before Sunset
  • Mysterious Skin
  • Burning
  • Gattaca

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  • Green Border

    ★★★½

  • The Universal Theory

    ★★½

  • Unstoppable

  • Metropolitan

    ★★★★

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  • Wolfs

    Wolfs 2024

    ★★★ Watched 06 Dec 2024

    3 stars may be a little generous, but I can't help feeling a bit nostalgic about a throwback like this. An old-fashioned studio star vehicle, with just enough breezy entertainment value to make you mostly overlook how generic it is. In decades past, this was the kind of movie that would be completely forgettable, except that you end up knowing it by heart as a result of repeatedly stumbling across it while flipping channels late at night.

  • This Closeness

    This Closeness 2023

    ★★★½ Watched 02 Dec 2024

    As a terminally socially awkward person, I would just like to say that, yes, this is exactly what the rest of you assholes sound like to us.

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  • The Summer with Carmen

    The Summer with Carmen 2023

    ★★★½ Watched 26 Oct 2023

    AFI Fest 2023 - #2

    Despite multiple direct references to Xavier Dolan, the famous queer filmmaker who seems to be the most obvious influence on The Summer With Carmen is Pedro Almodóvar. The story here is quite a bit slighter than the Spanish master's best work, but the influence is evident in the bold colors and careful framing, the mix of melodrama and light comedy, and the time-hopping narrative structure (okay, I guess some of those things are true of…

  • Sublime

    Sublime 2022

    ★★★★ Watched 18 Jul 2022 2

    A film that combines two of my absolute favorite things in the world: awkward/sweet queer coming of age stories and shitty pop punk music.

    Yeah, this was just lovely.

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  • John Dies at the End
  • Holy Motors
  • A Coffee in Berlin
  • Antiviral
  • The Impossible

Seen at AFI Fest 168 films

  • My Own Private Idaho
  • Reservoir Dogs
  • Dazed and Confused
  • Clerks
  • Se7en

Best Films By Year 33 films

  • Oppenheimer
  • May December
  • La Chimera
  • Rotting in the Sun
  • Asteroid City

Best of 2023 30 films

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