Alex Engquist

favorite films are the last four movies that I rated five stars, to mix it up

Favorite films

  • Moolaadé
  • I Am My Own Woman
  • Outer Space
  • The Crowd

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  • Rotting in the Sun

    ★★½

  • It Lives Inside

    ★★★

  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

    ★★★★

  • PlayTime

    ★★★★★

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  • Rotting in the Sun

    Rotting in the Sun

    ★★½

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

    I watched this on MUBI, over two nights and with pause breaks every 10 minutes or so because I found it so enervating. It's way too long for what amounts to a morbid meta-joke, and I honestly could have passed the rest of my life in peace never knowing who Jordan Firstman was. There is something in Silva's willfully messy, immediate style and his volatile anti-chemistry with Firstman, and there are a few off-handedly funny satirical moments (mostly delivered by…

  • It Lives Inside

    It Lives Inside

    ★★★

    Surprisingly solid PG-13 horror that mostly overcomes clumsy scripting and at times amateurish directing. Megan Suri and Neeru Bajwa are good and Dutta clearly has the most fun with the horror sequences. For me, worth it for the refreshingly old-school creature design and effects at the end.

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  • The Long Goodbye

    The Long Goodbye

    ★★★★

    There is no surface on Earth that Elliott Gould can't use to light a match.

  • Grey Gardens

    Grey Gardens

    ★★★★

    watching this now is like watching ghosts making a movie about ghosts trapped in a house haunted by ghosts

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