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Favorites are my most recent 5s.

Favorite films

  • The Brutalist
  • Sing Sing
  • Hi, Mom!
  • A Different Man

All
  • Wings of Desire

    ★★½

  • the Girls

    ★★

  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

    ★★★½

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★★

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Wings of Desire

1987

★★½ Watched

Borney 5/12

In this spiritual world, angels can have long overcoats and ponytails.

This is what happens when you go all gas no breaks on all poetry no prose. Poetry, especially within movies, is strong when there is something to hold it against, but when it becomes the overwhelmingly dominant vehicle, it starts to lose its power. When everything is poetry is nothing?

The concept is not uninteresting, but I think the choices that were made in how this was…

the Girls

2018

★★ 3

An okay story but not a very good movie. The unfortunate instance where a movie just charts downwards from a strong start and is never able to point its nose up again.

I didn't love the performances, which seem to be the thing that people are championing the hardest. Something about them lacked a humanity and realness, almost across the board, that the way this was told really needed to be effective.

Yeah, I the girls:

Starts
Unassumingly,
Pushes
Plots
Over
Real
Thought.

The
Hazy
Emotional

Grounding
Is
Really
Lacking
Shape.

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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

2025

★★★★ Watched

Mayssion: Impossible 8/8

What a way to cap it. And in IMAX? The seats were rumbling and I was smiling.

There is a lot of very good stuff in this, but there’s one 20ish minute segment that I think is of the best from the whole series. Hitting the high note with gusto.

As my journey has come to an end, and all the fun is done, I am now publishing this secret document from the IMF: Mission: Impossible: Ranked

Spaceballs

1987

★★ 4

For the sake of this review, comedies fall into one of the four quadrants of a graph with the axises of SILLY and FUNNY. A movie can be: 1. SILLY AND FUNNY, 2. SILLY BUT NOT FUNNY, 3. NOT SILLY BUT FUNNY, or 4. NOT SILLY AND NOT FUNNY.

Unfortunately for Spaceballs it is firmly planted in the quadrant of SILLY BUT NOT FUNNY. Silliness can be funny (think something like Dumb And Dumber or Step Brothers) but Silliness in…

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