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Raging Bull 1980
A primal unraveling of the male ego captured in stark black & white photography by Michael Chapman and centered on a career defining performance from Robert De Niro. Raging Bull sees every key figure operating at the peak of their power.
Thelma Schoonmaker cuts a kinetic, disorienting, and powerful downward spiral of this haunted character. Paul Schrader pens arguably the greatest and most incisive portrait in his series of films on troubled men, albeit with credit shared to Mardik Martin. Martin Scorsese…
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Stop Making Sense 1984
Goosebumps and chills throughout. One of my all-time favorite moviegoing experiences. David Byrne is a genuine hero of mine. Even in a form that is completely stripped of a cohesive narrative structure, Byrne manages to tow this incredible line between satirizing and celebrating Americana. He pulls these threads even further in his own feature True Stories, but the seeds of it were planted from their very first record. This is a musical masterwork in every regard, and a film which…
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018
“Remember, what makes you different is what makes you Spider-Man.”
It is crazy to me that we’re in a year where Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War came out and this Sony animated film is the best superhero movie I’ve seen in 2018. It’s difficult to collect my rambling thoughts about how much I loved this film so this review won’t be very analytical.
Everything about this movie was so fresh, beautiful, and fun. The story was suprisingly mature for…
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Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood 2019
“Anybody accidentally kills anybody in a fight, they go to jail. It’s called manslaughter.”
Tarantino has done it again. Every component from cinematography, lighting, soundtrack, direction, editing, writing, pacing, tone, and especially the acting is totally phenomenal. This was my first time seeing a Tarantino film in theaters and that was such a lovely experience. Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt should really just get a joint Oscar for this one, their chemistry is perfect and each of them is so…
