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92/100
Organized crime.
There’s a certain truth to the claim Martin Scorsese “only makes gangster films.” To agree based on how many times slick, tough-guy wannabes reeking of the worst of masculinity appear in his canon is a blatantly ignorant and surface-level reading for at the heart of the mobster is the question of America, its slimiest and most callous impulses turned profitable illusion turned national mythology. And the reason he…
99/100
A strange, powerful feeling washed over me during a trip from the airport once a few years ago. Slumped in the car’s backseat, hot air sinking in my skin, a slow song playing through my earphones blocking out the rest of the world, I looked out the window like a tired ghost. It was dark outside; it was neither day nor night. The grimy, virtually vacant highways of the metro were only illuminated by the sterile white glow from…
58/100
This amusement park ride was pretty amusing indeed; my cup of shallow entertainment coffee. Towering ancient monsters fighting for some reason and somehow people are actually invested. My brain was partially-asleep so you could count me in. Godzilla vs. Kong is pure spectacle and it knows it is, delivering stylish and action-packed kaiju battles worth the wait for its fans. It gives the people what they want for most of it and you just love to see it.
Gargantuan…
