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  • Oppenheimer

    Oppenheimer

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    After decades of films redefining the form by showing us "what we can do," Christopher Nolan takes his talents to a film that shows us the same in an extraordinarily bleak way.

    Hollywood blockbusters are all about showing off. Titanic, in 1999, showed off the destruction of a real historical event: a showcase of how far we had come with visual effects by creating something almost completely realistic and horrifying. Avatar, a decade later, did it again, showing realism within…

  • Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

    Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

    Mission: Impossible movies are always emblematic of their pocket of time in action filmmaking. Mission: Impossible is a perfect little action thriller with noir tendencies, with fantastic direction from Brian DePalma, and can now be seen as a faint echo of a time when huge tentpoles could be made by one of the best directors to ever live. Mission: Impossible 2 is an insane late 90s/early 2000s John Woo explosion – nothing says The Matrix came out between two films…

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  • Halloween

    Halloween

    would have liked this better if it had Corey Cunningham

  • Zodiac

    Zodiac

    pretty good but also very long and I don't think it entirely keeps the momentum.

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  • Hypnotic

    Hypnotic

    your dad will watch this on netflix in two years. he will say it is "pretty good." he will never think about it again.

  • Marriage Story

    Marriage Story

    the best Netflix original (it has Bionicles)