Riley

I been to hell ‘n back for 20 stacks

Favorite films

  • Exotica
  • Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees
  • Tropical Malady
  • Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels

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  • Offering

    ★★★★★

  • Telephones

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    ★★★★½

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    ★★★★

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  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    ★★★★½

    The Matrix Reloaded of comic book movies, a film that builds upon the practically flawless foundation of its original work to make something far less airtight but takes that structure into a pure, unfiltered assault of experimentation and expression to create something wholly new out of a tired genre. I wouldn’t fully put it past anyone feeling mildly unsatisfied at this essentially being half a story, it ends right at a such a high of escalating momentum right before ripping…

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    ★★★★

    Nice to know they’re occasionally letting people who actually like comic books make these

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  • Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

    Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

    ½

    I don’t think its a stretch to say that the towers of this ungodly mega franchise have been crumbling in recent years, with decreasing financial returns & general lack of enthusiasm has seemingly growing in recent years. But especially now, in the wake of last years biggest film being a genuinely astonishing and sincerely crafted piece of old school spectacle, showing us exactly what a project of this magnitude should look like, does this seem even more insulting. This is barely…

  • Don't Look Up

    Don't Look Up

    A feature length (almost *2 & A HALF HOURS*) extension of that post-credit scene from Vice about how people watch too much Fast & Furious to care about “real issues”, practically every attempt at a joke in this amounts to “world ending…., but people only care about celebrity and smartphone??? So sad…..”. A completely vapid, smug, deeply condescending and empty platitude. This is satire made specifically for people who deem themselves more informed than the common folk to pat themselves on the…