Sam

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Favorite films

  • Hamilton
  • Whiplash
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Oppenheimer

All
  • Mission: Impossible

    ★★★

  • Open Hearts

    ★★★★

  • The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

    ★★★

  • Rashomon

    ★★★★

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Mission: Impossible

1996

★★★ Watched

Honestly, quite dull. The narrative is transmitted in needlessly convoluted for something that is actually really simple, and the film thrives when it’s focused on scenes - like the heist - that can just breathe on their own, separated from the burdensome narrative around them. Bonus points however for filming a scene outside a pub that I’m fairly sure I’ve been to.

Open Hearts

2002

★★★★ Watched

“So, Hitler is human, no?”

Open Hearts perhaps deserves more credit for its intricate, subtle exploration of the connections between romance and Nazism.

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The Seventh Seal

1957

★★★★½ Watched

Pretty superb. Wasn’t prepared for how funny this would be either, but it is those clashes in tone which work in relation to the extremes of the film’s narrative world.

A Minecraft Movie

2025

★★½ Watched

Chicken jockey!

Objectively terrible (like you can tell five different people were responsible for scripting this film) but honestly, it’s not as appalling as some people have made it out to be. Some bits of it are actually funny and it looks OK, and - unlike The Super Mario Bros. Movie - it is self-aware; Jack Black and Jason Mamoa in particular know that they’re acting in the cinematic embodiment of total shite and just to have some fun. The problem…