Chris Richmond

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Favorite films

  • No Country for Old Men
  • The Tree of Life
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Children of Men

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  • Southern Comfort

    ★★½

  • The Drop

    ★★½

  • The Guilty

    ★★½

  • Belly

    ★★

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  • Southern Comfort

    Southern Comfort

    ★★½

    A film more important than good.

    Trans men are sorely under-represented in all media, as well as in the larger social conversation regarding trans people, so it's great to see a documentary with a specific focus on trans men.

    It's also nice that this mostly just gets out of the way and lets those guys speak for themselves about the issues they face and their perspective on gender and the societal view thereof.

    In terms of specifically capturing the story…

  • Belly

    Belly

    ★★

    A film whose value is almost entirely in its oddball visual flair.

    Storywise this is essentially a mish-mash of every notable film in the subgenre in the roughly half-decade preceding, except not written and acted as well as those and with less coherence in theme or plot.

    For that matter, even the editing is deliriously schizophrenic in its direction and constant in its rapid progression. And not necessarily in a positive manner.

    The good news is the shots are all…

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  • Avengers: Infinity War

    Avengers: Infinity War

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

    That was the least interesting superhero movie I've ever seen.

    Not the worst, mind you. Maybe the second worst. But at least Catwoman runs under two hours and offers so-bad-it's-good entertainment.

    Infinity War is a bloated piece of empty, corporate garbage.

    This movie takes TWO AND A HALF HOURS to tell a story that could've been done in 80 minutes.

    The worst part is that roughly 75% of this is characters standing around talking to each other about what just…

  • Dunkirk

    Dunkirk

    ★★

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

    I don't think this is necessarily an outright bad film, but what the fuck is the point here?

    Is the point that war is hell? If so, this is obvious to everyone already. Films like Saving Private Ryan (1998) or We Were Soldiers (2002) depict the visual atrocity and gut-wrenching fear, pain, and confusion of soldiers much more viscerally and accurately. This is a bleached, PG-13 affair that seems content to shy away from the blood, the burning corpses, and the horrifically and…

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