SilentDawn

SilentDawn

Favorite films

  • All That Heaven Allows
  • Meet Me in St. Louis
  • Carol
  • It's a Wonderful Life

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  • Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar

    ★★★½

  • 8-Bit Christmas

  • May December

    ★★★★½

  • Twilight

    ★★★½

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  • 8-Bit Christmas

    8-Bit Christmas

    12

    Typical 80s nostalgia bait. Fit the bill as a holiday movie that played on the TV as I wandered in and out of the living room but it genuinely made me angry whenever I actually focused on it.

  • May December

    May December

    ★★★★½

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

    87

    Like the box of shit that Natalie Portman's Elizabeth unknowingly clutches upon arrival to this close-knit Savannah community, the latest Todd Haynes film is packed with nasty, sordid surprises while carrying a heavy hazy layer of trauma underneath. Part psychodrama, part academic re-work of a Lifetime true-crime special - all of May December rests on a tonal highwire far above its influences, and there's not a misstep to be found. Portman and Moore fight for control in this tale…

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  • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

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

    15

    Disney/Lucasfilm Headquarters. Int. Day.

    Rian Johnson: Oh, hey, JJ!

    JJ Abrams: Hi Rian, how's it going?

    RJ: Great! I just wanted to say that really enjoyed my time making The Last Jedi. It was so exciting to craft a personal film with Disney money. And everyone at Lucasfilm approved it right away because Episode 7 left me with a bunch of mystery-box ideas and set-up that wasn't going to lead anywhere. Who directed that one again?

    JJ: Me. I…

  • American Psycho

    American Psycho

    ★★★★½

    Christian Bale deserved an Oscar.

    So quotable.

    So funny.

    So twisted.

    So delirious.

    So amazing.

    Sorry this review is so short, I have to return some videotapes.