SaintPauly

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An ex-expat back in the States, my goal is to see at least 365 films every year. See my Instagram account for more info: @1.2.3.wtf

Favorite films

  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
  • Apocalypse Now
  • Mommy
  • Roman Holiday

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • Counterattack

    ★★

  • Becoming Led Zeppelin

    ★★★★★

  • The Gorge

    ★★½

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★

    Like a glue-sniffing sharpshooter: it sets its sights high, but misses the mark.

    Robert Pattinson's performance was on the nose and everyone loves a good takedown of the Con-man in Chief (no, not fElon, the other one), but as someone who loves story-driven films, the evaporating characters and disappearing storylines left me a little frustrated once the cinematography cleared.

  • Counterattack

    Counterattack

    ★★

    Like a Taco Bell bathroom: noisy and busy and everything in it is reprocessed.

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  • A Rainy Day in New York

    A Rainy Day in New York

    ★½

    Am I really the only one who noticed the character of director Roland Pollard seems like a reference to director Roman Polanski, making Rainy Day an inside joke from one sex offender to another while the young Elle Fanning trots about the film throwing herself at older men?
    🤔
    This fact aside, however, at least it's still a shit film. Every character (apart from the one played by Selena Gomez) is Allen so we're subjected to a parade of bad…

  • The Beasts

    The Beasts

    ★★★★

    Like an appendectomy with no anesthesia, it feels good when it's over and thank God you only have to do it once.

    As Bestas (The Beasts) is a Franco-Spanish thriller that starts off tense and relentlessly turns the screws ever so tightly until you're begging the movie to just fucking kill you or let you go.

    Rodrigo Sorogoyen directed this on razor wire with absolutely no missteps and the result is suspense that feels more like a horror movie than…

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