Alex Holmes

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Favorite films

  • Past Lives
  • The Zone of Interest
  • Poor Things
  • The Boy and the Heron

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  • Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★

  • Drive-Away Dolls

    ★★½

  • Invincible

  • The Greatest Night in Pop

    ★★★½

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  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★

    I'm first of all so impressed by the sheer craft on display here. This is just as well made as the first and it feels honestly on the same level, with a slightly expanded scope, and it's miraculous that something like this got made with this big a budget and is going to do this well and was made so lovingly. It is really an epic experience that you have to see on a huge screen, and I saw it…

  • Drive-Away Dolls

    Drive-Away Dolls

    ★★½

    Easily the weakest movie made by either of the Coen brothers that I've seen. I was so excited for this what with the stacked cast, Ethan in the director's chair and the premise that seems perfectly set up for a good time. And it feels like it is trying so hard to be that good time but I couldn't shake the feeling that it is written, shot, and edited like a student film. I'm all for wacky editing transitions, but…

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  • Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

    Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

    ★★★★½

    scavenger hunt 52

    task 15: a film you think would be PERFECT to see at a drive-in theater.

    "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" is definitely a Quentin Tarantino picture, and it doesn't let you forget it by the end. Be that as it may, it's safe to call it the most un-Tarantino-esque work in his eclectic filmography. It's stylized, but there aren't whip zooms. It's violent, but easily his least violent film. The film is not driven by character…

  • Joker

    Joker

    ★★★½

    On second thought...

    First two thirds: almost a slog, derivative, predictable, by the numbers, gorgeous score, nice cinematography, great Joaquin Phoenix

    Last act: pretty gripping, great musical choices, operatic, grandiose, extravagant, ballsy, great Joaquin Phoenix

    "Joker" is good, not great