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Dark Waters 2019, directed by Todd Haynes Rating: 8/10 Todd Haynes is one of my favorite directors, so this movie surprised me with how tame it feels compared to many of his other films. Still, he manages to take what could be a stodgy film and make it stand out from most of the crowd.
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Isabella 2020, directed by Matías Piñeiro Rating: 9/10 Matías Piñeiro’s Shakespeare films (adaptations? homages? companion texts?) really fascinate me. Each (at least of those I have seen) is named after one (or two, in the case of Hermia & Helena) of Shakespeare’s female characters, and features actors in the modern day working through the play text
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Oz the Great and Powerful 2013, directed by Sam Raimi Rating: 6/10 When I saw this movie in IMAX 3D, it was such a fun experience and in the moment it was great. Watching it now at home in a lighted room on a 2D TV over ten years later, it does not work as
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Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970, directed by Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda, and Kinji Rukasaku Rating: 9/10 I’ve owned this movie for a while, and have been meaning to watch it for even longer. It’s been a blind spot that I knew one day I would fix, if I could just make the time for a 2.5
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16 Days of Glory 1985, directed by Bud Greenspan Rating: 10/10 There are 54 films (including shorts) in the Criterion Collection’s 100 Years of Olympic Films 1912-2012 boxset, and out of all of them, my favorite is Bud Greenspan’s 16 Days of Glory which captures the athletic feats at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. At 285 minutes,
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All Good Things 2013, directed by Andrew Jarecki Rating: 6/10 This was a recent purchase added into my collection as I impatiently waited for new episodes of the second season of The Jinx. When I saw All Good Things years ago, before the first season of The Jinx, it didn’t leave much of an impression on me other than
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