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Film Critic @ Proximatanda.com
Repertoire Film Curator @ Caribbean Cinemas
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Favorite films

  • Ran
  • Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
  • Phantom Thread
  • The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

All
  • Across 110th Street

    ★★★★½

  • Coogan's Bluff

    ★★½

  • Don't Torture a Duckling

    ★★★

  • Blue Velvet

    ★★★★

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Across 110th Street

1972

★★★★½ Liked 1

What a great fucking movie, filled to the brim with captivating characters in a pot boiler of a crime thriller. 

This easily shares the Mt. Rushmore of “Bag of Money” movies alongside No Country For Old Men, Jackie Brown and Dumb & Dumber. 

Catch it on The Criterion Channel before it leaves on June 30th.

Blue Velvet

1986

★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Masculinity is a disease. 

The world is full of Franks…
 
and the robins aren’t coming.  

Now it’s dark.

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The Little Things

2021

★½ 43

Denzel Washington: “Just give me my check”

Rami Malek: “This is way harder when I can’t lip sync my way through a performance”

Jared Leto: “I didn’t bathe for over six months, murdered three hamsters and developed a hilarious strut in preparation for this role”

Athena

2022

★★★½ 14

Gavras manages to pull off what is easily the best opening shot of 2022 *AND* the worst closing shot of the year. Woof. What a cowardly and treacherous way to drop the ball on the 1 yard line after such an incendiary ride.