Simon Abrams

Simon Abrams

Favorite films

  • A Better Tomorrow
  • Hard Boiled
  • Bullet in the Head
  • Windtalkers

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  • Killers of the Flower Moon

    ★★★★½

  • Deep Astronomy and the Romantic Sciences

    ★★★★½

  • The Zone of Interest

    ★★★★½

  • May December

    ★★★★

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  • Werner Herzog - Radical Dreamer

    Werner Herzog - Radical Dreamer

    ★★

    Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer! A new documentary about, well, take a guess. Some amusing anecdotes and talking head interviews, including brother Lucki Stipetic and Mandalorian co-star Carl Weathers. Otherwise…. More in my Roger Ebert dot com review.

  • Godzilla Minus One

    Godzilla Minus One

    ★★★½

    Godzilla Minus One! A conventional, but still satisfying disaster movie that plays to the crowd-pleasing, nationalist impulses and strengths of director Takashi Yamazaki (Always: Sunset on Third Street). Loud, overwhelming, spectacular. More in my Roger Ebert dot com review.

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  • The Void

    The Void

    ★★

    As if Lucio Fulci had made The Thing. No, wait: as if Lucio Fulci's biggest fan had made The Thing. No, no, as if Lucio Fulci's biggest fan cross-bred The Thing with Night of the Living Dead. No wait it's Hellraiser and Lovecraft and oh god there's just so many unsynthesized influences here good god no waiiiiiit... More soon at RogerEbert.com.

  • Braven

    Braven

    ★★★½

    A fun LL Bean revenge thriller. So much "real America" chest-thumping. More log cabins, big trucks, hunting rifles, bow and arrows, man against nature, man as provider, man fightin for his family BS than you can shake a stick at. This flannel has a high-thread count.

    Jason Momoa sets a man on fire! Stephen Lang has Alzheimer's and shoots people! Jill Wagner, playing Jason Momoa's wife, also shoots people after joking that Momoa's character is too tired from work to…