Letterboxd — Your life in film

Reviews

• 

  Copper Mountain 1983

  

  Neill Shaughness ½

  Jim Carey does a Steve Martin impression that might have ruined Steve Martin for me forever.

  3.5 stars for the Rifftrax.

• 

  Run Lola Run 1998

  

  iamzarcon ★★★★½

  This film was ahead of its time in a few ways, but mainly predicting what video game logic would look like in games with several different endings based on choices…

• 

  Love on a Leash 2011

  

  Nickstradamus ★★★★½

  This is Bad Movie Art. When the lovable, talking dog opens the film by making homophobic remarks, says he needs to be human so he can have sex with ladies, and…

• 

  The Matrix Reloaded 2003

  

  Eric Szyszka ★★½ 1

  The Matrix is so well paced and lean and The Matrix Reloaded is like "how's tank and dozer's sister's marriage doing?"

• 

  Coherence 2013

  

  Nickstradamus ★★★★½

  This is a version of Primer that doesn’t hate its audience — low-budget but high-concept sci-fi which makes the very most of its wild premise while twisting and turning just…

• 

  The Tale of the Princess Kaguya 2013

  

  Neill Shaughness ★★★★½

  Ffs, Ghibli!

  Japanese fairly tales can have a unique sort of chill to them. Ghibli captures this quality wonderfully in this film. Every beat of this story has a cold…

• 

  Cape Fear 1962

  

  Neill Shaughness ★★★★½ 1

  I can't overstate what this movie brought to the thriller genre.

  Tiny criticism, Peck is just a little too controlled for this role. I never really buy that he's losing…

• 

  Go 1999

  

  Nickstradamus ★★★

  I was worried this wouldn’t hold since I last saw in theatres, and it hasn’t, but that’s not the movie’s fault: I’m a whole other person now, less affectionate of…