Sam Johnstone

Toronto based designer with a love of illustration, cycling and baked goods. Partner at the boutique design studio Night Shift.

Favorite films

  • Lost in Translation
  • Ocean's Twelve
  • The Worst Person in the World
  • Personal Shopper

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  • The Dead Don't Hurt

    ★★★½

  • NYAD

    ★★★½

  • NAGA

    ★★★

  • Next Goal Wins

    ★★★

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  • The Dead Don't Hurt

    The Dead Don't Hurt

    ★★★½

    Want this to be at least a 4 star, because Vicky Krieps, as absolutely always, knocks this movie on its ass, but never had a movie needed its bad guys less than this movie. If it only had just been mortensen and krieps on their own making it in the west.

  • NYAD

    NYAD

    ★★★½

    A really cool flick. I can't help but feel that I'd prefer Vasarhelyi + Chin's documentary version of this instead, but Annette Bening is great, Jodie Foster is great, Rhys Ifans is great, even if it feels like the film is aiming right down the middle.

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  • Bottoms

    Bottoms

    ★★★★★

    A comedy finally brave enough to be very funny

  • X-Men: First Class

    X-Men: First Class

    ★★½

    This has really dropped in my esteem since the last time I watched this. Fassbender is still very good, McAvoy is pretty good, everyone else is very bad? I like every actor in this I think otherwise, so I assume it’s not their faults.

    The action is either badly choreographed or very badly blocked, and the constant poorly composited wide shots cutting to green screen close ups (banshee, angel, especially) during action scenes feels cheaper every year. The visible wire…