Sam Patron

Favorite films

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Koyaanisqatsi
  • Titanic
  • Rocky

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  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

  • Vanilla Sky

  • A League of Their Own

  • Midnight Cowboy

    ★★★★★

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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

2025

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Tom Cruise is the last movie star. I know, I know, you’re sick of hearing that statement, but I’m emphasizing it because it's undeniably true. In a Hollywood landscape saturated with so-called “spectacle,” no one else working today understands the core of what makes an action movie work. The M:I franchise has long exemplified this clarity of vision, never wasting time, always launching each entry with a sharp, recognizable setup. These movies live off of Cruise’s wildly animated commitment to…

Vanilla Sky

2001

Watched

A solid third of this movie is an audacious 2000s masterpiece but it’s buried under a generic “it’s not what you think” psychological drama and an intriguing but flat romance. None of it is outright bad but I wish the whole thing was the creepy and operatic time-warp thriller with zany saturated sky backdrops and eclectic music. The examination of Cruise’s star persona just ing his first career peak is retroactively fascinating, you get the signature drive and pulse he had from Maverick and Jerry Maguire but Crowe gives this character an Oliver Barrett IV background

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Little Miss Sunshine

2006

★★★★★ 14

Easily the best dance scene in any movie.

Tenet

2020

★½ 27

teacher: the test isn’t that confusing 

the test: