Letterboxd — Your life in film

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The Shinning is an amazing movie. Okay, I don’t usually structurally do this with my reviews but since this is what feels like my hundredth time writing about this film I’ve decided to do a few mini rankings relating to this Stanley Kubrick masterpiece. In a film that’s riddled with almost nothing but iconic scenes of horror, dialogue, and ominism it can be quite difficult to chose just one as favorite so for my first ranking- here are my top…

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Stacy and Lydia are BFFs who've always dreamed about having epic Bat Mitzvahs. However, things start to go comically awry when a popular boy and middle school drama threatens their friendship and their rite of passage.

The Sandler family absolutely surprised me here. While I am a massive fan of Adam, his Netflix comedies often fall flat on their face. His comedic outings just do not work…

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Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.

This film works almost entirely because of two factors. The first reason why this makes for a solid entry is the incredible screen presence of Denzel and how he is able to make…

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Psycho is perfection. Apart from Jaws, my watching of this film has marked the most times I’ve fully seen a film outside of those I saw during my childhood or through the Christmas holiday. Even after six times experiencing this absolute classic, it remains in my book one of the most gripping and tightly knit films to have ever been made- lasting timelessly and continuing to thrive. It may have been the fact I was…

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Network is a phenomenal movie. Heading into this film as a lover of 70s cinema, a cinephile with access to seeing how highly rated this is on all sites, an American movie goer who could recognize several influences this went on to have in pop culture, and most significantly a bonafide Oscar fanatic- my expectations for this acclaimed social satire that I’d somehow hadn’t seen yet were practically sky high. On paper, this film looked…

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A bank executive receives a bomb threat while driving his children to school that his car will explode if they stop and get out.

Liam Neeson just doesn’t stop Liam Neeson-ing, and while the world was a better place because of that ten years ago, it feels like it’s time to call it quits. Retribution isn’t a tragically bad film from start to finish; the experience has its moments, but it is inevitably a painfully…

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An alien scarab chooses Jaime Reyes to be its symbiotic host, bestowing the recent college graduate with a suit of armor that's capable of extraordinary powers, forever changing his destiny as he becomes the superhero known as Blue Beetle.

In a world of superhero projects that seemingly drop every two days, Blue Beetle had little to offer from the trailers. Nothing about the film felt original in any way,…

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Based on the unbelievable, inspiring true story of a team of underdogs - a struggling, working-class gamer, a failed former race car driver, and an idealistic motorsport exec - who risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world.

After seeing this trailer 746 times in the theater, my brain was wired to be “anti-Gran Turismo” going into this screening. Not only did this…