jocey

baby, you are gonna miss that plane.

i’m a writer and an idiot, so i tell you this with supreme confidence: every movie is four stars!

Favorite films

  • Sunset Boulevard
  • Point Break
  • Columbus
  • The Philadelphia Story

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  • Boyhood

  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

    ★★★★½

  • BlackBerry

    ★★★★

  • Fast X

    ★★

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  • TÁR

    TÁR

    ★★★★★

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

    femme whiplash 😍

    EDIT to say:

    In my work meeting this week, I found myself heartily endorsing TÁR — "Oh, I loved TÁR. Really good." A coworker who hadn't seen it piped up — "oh yeah, isn't that the anti-Me Too movie?" The line hits well. I can understand the allure of the easy summary. A movie about a predatory lesbian written and directed by a white man, starring a magnificent performance by a straight A-list actress whose best performance…

  • High School Musical 3: Senior Year

    High School Musical 3: Senior Year

    found this movie ticket on the ground in my childhood closet — saw this in theaters with my friend kyra and acted like i was, at 14, way too sophisticated to be there. same school year i read all the twilight books as “teen girl research,” purely from a sociological standpoint. absolutely mortified to be a teen girl.

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  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

    ★★★★½

    wait… the best one???

  • BlackBerry

    BlackBerry

    ★★★★

    thank you canada!!! glenn howerton is so electric and full of pathos, and i really dig what jay baruchel’s doing too. charming and interesting and well cast enough that you can forgive some of its sillier indulgences. good soundtrack! matt johnson you have gained a fan (it’s me).

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  • Hairspray

    Hairspray

    ★★★★

    this is what glee thinks it is

  • Speed

    Speed

    ★★★

    most realistic la plot point is that they keep almost dying because the city can’t finish transit and infrastructure projects on time