Midnight Special
03/26/2020
worst matte painting ever
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2016
Gimme Danger
01/11/2019
a surprisingly greater-than-three-star doc the stooges were/are charismatic idiots, like everyone else in the 1960s (except for the charismatic part) terrible font choice
Arrival
11/19/2017
not flawless, but there are no glaring errors great and unexpected mirroring of plot, theme, execution
Hell or High Water
10/01/2017
the kind of movie Scroggs would like if he weren’t dead nice ambiguous ending Jeff Bridges acting like he’s literally chewing scenery—and it works
Mindhorn
06/02/2017
The Greasy Strangler
05/14/2017
Anthropoid
03/04/2017
War On Everyone
02/03/2017
Rogue One
20/16/2016
Captain America Civil War
12/31/2016
Neon Demon
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Nicolas Winding Refn hates story. Story as a punchy less pretentious word for “narrative”, as if I needed to worry about pretense in an essay like this. The plot has never been a strong element in any of his movies. The Pusher trilogy, Bronson, Valhalla Rising, even Drive are more picaresque or episodic than anything else—character is the engine […]