stephenkb

stephenkb

Favorite films

  • Casablanca
  • Sideways
  • Lady Bird
  • Theater Camp

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  • Rose of Nevada

    ★★★

  • Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu

  • The Christophers

    ★★

  • The Devil Wears Prada 2

    ★★★★

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Rose of Nevada
★★★ Watched

Very enjoyable. It could have been a short film, yet somehow the full runtime still works.

Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
Watched

Overlong badly-directed TV movie (you can see the bits where it would break into episodes) overladen with repeated exposition (who is Rotta’s father? Perhaps you could have told me a third time) and that commits the worst of all Star Wars sins, in that it is frequently dull.

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Maestro
½ Watched

If you’re going to make a biopic of one of the great composers of the 20th century, you shouldn’t make it largely about who he slept with. But if you’re going to do that, you shouldn’t completely leave out his advocacy for people with HIV/Aids and his mentoring of Marin Alsop. Unfortunately, this film, which seems to be preoccupied with shrinking its subject at every turn, commits both these sins and more besides.

What led Leonard Bernstein to want to…

Killers of the Flower Moon
½ Watched

A frustrating misfire. The decision to make the murderers the centre of the film robs it of any tension or suspense: we find out what is going on essentially in the opening 15 minutes and are then subjected to the rest of the characters finding out very, very, very, veeerrry slowly. 

The decision to make DiCaprio’s character the protagonist is a mistake twice over. Once, as discussed, because it means we in the audience know exactly what is going on…