bencgauld

bencgauld
Film Freak
# Film Ratings: 737
Member Since: 12 Jan 2020
Location: USA

Recent Ratings

60 21%
Mountainhead (2025) - Rated 14 Jul 2025
95 94%
Apocalypse Now (1979) - Rated 14 Jul 2025
78 54%
Black Bag (2025) - Rated 14 Jul 2025
80 59%
Days of Thunder (1990) - Rated 02 Jul 2025
"It's flashy, ludicrous and to be sure, favors style over substance but when a movie is THIS stylish, a lot can be excused."
70 36%
F1: The Movie (2025) - Rated 29 Jun 2025
"The racing scenes are great, but it everything else is tedious. Each character is only afforded one trait, if they're lucky."
90 84%
The Insider (1999) - Rated 15 Jun 2025
"Mann shoots corporate politics with thr same verve and sense of tension as gunfights. The indignant monologues of Pacino, Plummer and Crowe have the same cinematic gravitas as explosions. It's an action movie with no physicsl action."
88 79%
Dead Ringers (1988) - Rated 15 Jun 2025
"With much less prosthetics and body horror than past Croenenbourg films, it still manages to unsettle. Jeremy Irons gives a split performance for the ages, giving each side of the twins distinguishable nuance. Their codependency is enthrallingly fleshed out, no pun intended, until the line between two initially distinct characters dissappear."
88 79%
Sorcerer (1977) - Rated 15 Jun 2025
"Why can't movies look like this anymore. Beautiful, harrowing, tense. It's light on characterization but I'll be thinking about the famous bridge scene for some time"
50 12%
Southland Tales (2007) - Rated 15 Jun 2025
"Megalopolis of the Bush Era, it crumbles under the weight of it's prescient ambition. It's a tawdry mash up of Mad TV, Phillip K. Dick, MTV and Fox News. I wish I enjoyed this more and that they didn't waste the best performance of the Rock's career on this."
75 46%
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025) - Rated 30 May 2025
"There are at least 4 shots of Tom Cruise running as fast as a 60 year old has ever moved. The exposition heavy plot is saddled with a first half that dredges up events from the previous 7 films in a way prior installments really haven't done but once the action got moving I forgot all about it... along with the specificities of their ploy to disable 'The Entity' The two main set pieces are incredible. Some of the most exhilarating stunts I've ever seen."