Writing Reviews & Reflections

by Brandon Thompson

I haven’t seen every movie, but in the mean time, I look at the water.

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You Were Never Really Here (Review)

Comparing this film to Taxi Driver doesn’t do this film justice. It’s far more humanistic and empathetic than Taxi Driver. While watching...

Fuck Black Panther. How is everyone talking about a generic superhero movie being nominated for best picture but not the most humanistic...

About a fortnight ago I claimed that films like Mission Impossible: Fallout and Ocean’s 8 are simply products for consumption. Well,...

This is easily the most provocative film I've seen that is doing so by not being provocative at all. A common criticism of Schindler's...

This movie is simply a product made for consumption just like the recent Ocean's Eight. Both of these franchises had a film in the last...

So often during history has great art been made under restrictive environments. Typically under an authoritarian government. The most...

"The films that bored me the most in the past become my favourite movies later on. So I don’t care about boring the audience. Sometimes I...

A director’s job is ordinarily to provide escapism, not deny it. Except that is what Terry Gilliam does with this long-gestating project....

The Image Book is the new “film” from the French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard. The reason I put film in quotation marks is that ever...

For all the things this movie does well it’s held back by another. By looking at Cold War as a whole has to lead me to perceive it as an...