Somehow Guy Ritchie's 2nd or 3rd best movie. A total structural mess for no good reason, full of his Brit-gangster adolescent machismo, wildly stacked cast, and some of the tightest action of his entire career. I think I liked it?
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It Chapter Two 2019
Great job turning this deeply idiosyncratic, sprawling story about collective trauma and history into Serious Beetlejuice.
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017
Reminds you of what this sort of thing can be with an actual director behind it instead of merely a gang of well-meaning producers. Johnson deploys a few basic narrative and visual tricks that haven't really popped up in a STAR WARS film before, along with his usual precise frames and tight technical craft, and a particular attention to emotional continuity. There's also a welcome preoccupation with collateral damage, both physical and psychic. One thing Johnson's films have never really…
