Category: Movies
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One Thing I Like About John Wick
John Wick manages to accomplish a lot with the mantra of “tell, don’t show”
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Your Taste, Should You Choose to Accept It
Mission: Impossible, Letterboxd, and making peace with being basic
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Two Great Tastes (One More Thing I Love About Final Destination: Bloodlines)
Bloodlines not only nails the Final Destination formula, but also manages to give it some weight. Lots of spoilers.
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One Thing I Love About Final Destination: Bloodlines
Most horror movies lose their spark when the characters start figuring out the rules. The 6th Final Destination movie makes it part of the fun.
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One Thing I Like About Asteroid City
Even though I don’t get Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, I can still tell that Tilda Swinton did
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Magic What We Do (Rewatching Sinners)
More thoughts about Sinners after a second viewing, including plenty of stuff I missed. Lots of spoilers.
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Bucky With the Bad Hair (One Thing I Like About Thunderbolts*)
Thunderbolts* manages to be a strong counterpoint to superhero fatigue, by being even more like a comic book (no spoilers)
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One Thing I Guess I Like About Bodies Bodies Bodies
Sometimes a movie is not made for me and that’s a good thing. Lots of spoilers.
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One Thing I Like About Until Dawn
Until Dawn is a collection of b-movie horror moments loosely structured around a video game, and it’s at its strongest when it leans into that. (Some spoilers after a warning)
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One Thing I Like About The Ballad of Wallis Island
Tom Basden and Tim Key’s story of lost loves and forced reunions manages to charm its way through in the end
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Pick Poor Robin Clean (One More Thing I Love About Sinners)
There’s one scene in Sinners that seems to be played for a laugh, but it’s packed with meaning that ripples throughout the entire movie. Long post with lots of spoilers.
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One Thing I Like About Drop
Drop places itself in the long history of high-concept suspense thrillers, then makes a reasonably convincing argument that it belongs there