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  Her 2013

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by Jack Braun 22 Jun 2022

  SPIKE JONZE’S FILMOGRAPHY (8/9)

  EIGHTH FILM:
  Her (2013)

  Irreplaceable! This film is a completely engulfing marvel of monumental storytelling. Spike Jonze crafts one of the most heartfelt, moving, and shattering films of his career. The heavy thematic representation of disconnection and loneliness makes for a strikingly relatable experience. Joaquin Phoenix’s performance is nothing short of masterful as he exhibits fantastic chemistry amid so many other phenomenal performances. The musical composition fits so well with the subtlety communicated universe that feels…

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  Pretty Sweet 2012

  ★★★½ Watched by Jack Braun 21 Jun 2022

  SPIKE JONZE’S FILMOGRAPHY (7/9)

  SEVENTH FILM:
  Pretty Sweet (2012)

  Kinetic! This film is one of the most creative endeavors in terms of instilling personality into the niche of skate videos. Spike Jonze, Ty Evans, and Cory Weincheque absolutely dominate with stunning direction and artistic merit. The visual effects and usage of great set pieces are wildly fascinating to witness for a skate video. The vastness of different locations, skaters, and tricks makes for many turbulent moments. The music selection is…

Popular reviews

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  Licorice Pizza 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched by Jack Braun 27 Nov 2021

  “Licorice Pizza” (2021), is an eccentric, exhilarating, and endlessly unforgettable slice of life that captures purely bona fide moments in time like lightning in a bottle, and as the latest feature from one of the greatest living American auteurs of cinema, Paul Thomas Anderson, this installment allows him to go back to his roots by putting on display one of the truest and most unfettered forms of first love and navigation to ever be depicted in his filmography, and at…

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  No Time to Die 2021

  ★★★★ Watched by Jack Braun 07 Oct 2021 2

  “No Time to Die” (2021), is a colossal, impactful, and spectacularly necessary conclusion to Daniel Craig’s unforgettable tenure as the memorably charismatic character of James Bond, and as the final climactic chapter of this particular era for the franchise, it is delivered with such a fantastic drive of both action and drama, and although the monolithic runtime of 2 hours and 43 minutes does present cause for worry in terms of pacing and investment, this film mostly does an excellent…