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dsaos
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# Film Ratings: 505
Member Since: 05 Aug 2007
Location: Denver, CO, USA
Bio: Graphic Designer.

Recent Ratings

93 95%
Upstream Color (2013) - Rated 30 Apr 2013
What a special film. Surreal in the most classical of senses, it's rare to come by something that is so clearly a labor of love. UC's plotting is complex (although not as cold as Primer's, which scared me off), but its told in a dreamlike, intuitive way peppered with melancholy, clever ways of depicting a modern romance. It's something that you have to work for, but you're engrossed doing it.
90 87%
Django Unchained (2012) - Rated 20 Feb 2013
It holds up as a spaghetti western, and manages to tackle a complex issue just as well as it does comedy and buckets of blood.
84 61%
Bellflower (2011) - Rated 17 Nov 2012
By the late 20s crowd, for the late 20s crowd, and pretty original. Its romance is portrayed with such a great degree of honesty and minimalist touches that the nihilistic bombast of its ending cuts deep. Definitely worth a watch.
84 61%
Ghostwatch (1992) - Rated 06 Nov 2012
Oh hey there, found-footage horror movie that predated Blair Witch Project by 7 years yet still manages to do more interesting things than more recent entries in the genre. This was a fun little horror movie that gave me a couple of chills.
91 90%
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) - Rated 06 Nov 2012
Dat harmonica. There's some incredible blocking here, and the found-sound nature of the soundtrack harkens the production back to a simpler, slower time. Leone's direction reinforces that, focusing on a slow build of tension with bombastic yet sobering releases. Seriously, this is the most artfully crafted western.
80 48%
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists (2012) - Rated 06 Nov 2012
A well-crafted, if meandering, documentary on what is rightly framed as an entirely new form of protest. Not sure how much of that is coming from me being in on the ground floor of the movement, though.
74 34%
Sinister (2012) - Rated 06 Nov 2012
94 97%
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) - Rated 04 Oct 2012
Welp, this is an incredibly beautiful and wistful movie about childhood with which Anderson's style meshes perfectly. There's a tendency in the narrative to go to dark and vulnerable places, but the notably fantastic cast lighten the load with sincere (sometimes blunt) character quirks. By the end, you just feel more...well, human.
85 66%
Die Hard (1988) - Rated 03 Oct 2012
82 54%
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) - Rated 03 Oct 2012