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Jake Goldstein-Street

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  • A Complete Unknown

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  • Walk the Line

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  • Barton Fink

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  • Grizzly Man

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  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown 2024

    ★★★½ Watched 08 Jan 2025

    You know, you're kind of an asshole

    Man, you know you've got an incredible catalog when they can make a 135-minute movie about the first five years of your career and it's basically all just songs.

    Truly such little story here propelling the plot. The only thing keeping us going is figuring out which Bob Dylan classic is coming next. The narrative tension does pick up in the 1965 chapter for obvious reasons, though even the Newport framing is awkward…

  • Walk the Line

    Walk the Line 2005

    ★★★★ Watched 07 Jan 2025

    Now I've asked you forty different ways and it's time you come up with a fresh answer.

    There is a reason this movie is so achingly conventional. Because it still works.

    The literal inspiration for WALK HARD, this is tragic and invigorating, often at the same time. It's not about Johnny Cash making the music, but about what is behind the music, allowing us to buy into that cliche childhood foundational trauma because it is exactly that, foundation for the…

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  • Judas and the Black Messiah

    Judas and the Black Messiah 2021

    ★★★★ Watched 12 Feb 2021

    You can murder a liberator, but you can't murder liberation. You can murder a revolutionary, but you can't murder revolution. And you can murder a freedom fighter, but you can't murder freedom.

    Martin Sheen as J. Edgar Hoover is one of the scariest things I've seen in a while.

    Daniel Kaluuya? Magnetic, can't look away (made me think of the freestyle scene from WIDOWS). LaKeith Stanfield? Layered and beautiful. But what I'll remember is the look in Dominique Fishback's eyes…

  • Scream VI

    Scream VI 2023

    ★★★ Watched 10 Mar 2023

    Who gives a fuck about movies

    The franchise fatigue is real. First, we have the ninth movie in a franchise about boxing. Then the sixth in a horror franchise. Then the fourth in an action franchise. It just seems like there's such a barrier to entry for mainstream entertainment these days. Can't movies just stand alone and be good without being a part of a broader universe we need to follow for a generation?

    This one made me especially think…

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  • Good Night, and Good Luck.
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2005 Ranked 10 films

  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • JFK
  • The Doors
  • Point Break
  • Cape Fear

1991 Ranked 8 films

  • Dune: Part Two
  • Challengers
  • Anora
  • Conclave
  • Juror #2

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