Mathew Lee

Favorite films

  • Gravity
  • Call Me by Your Name
  • Amour
  • The Green Mile

All
  • Nickel Boys

    ★★★½

  • Flow

    ★★★★½

  • Sing Sing

    ★★★★½

  • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

    ★★★★

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Nickel Boys

2024

★★★½ Liked Watched

I wish the ending was clearer to me, I had to look it up. I’ve heard it’s better in the book and maybe I’ll read that because the story is gripping and devastating.

Perhaps a little long but a really strong directorial debut. Interesting camera techniques using perspective in first person. Which ultimately makes sense with the ending.

Flow

2024

★★★★½ Liked Watched

Beautiful, moving and other worldly. 
Moments take your breath away. On the edge of your seat.

Extra half star for the whale thing. You know how I love whales.

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I'm Still Here

2024

★★★★★ Liked Watched

Perfect storytelling. Fernanda’s performance holds the whole movie together, from the minimal glances where whole ocean is in her eyes to her explosions of rage, it is absurd to me that anyone else would win the Oscar. 

The ending destroyed me. I cannot believe these things happen in real life. There are moments through the film where it drags slightly, but I think that’s the point. The moments of climax make it all worth it.

A+++ casting. The family are…

Mank

2020

★★★★ Watched

A good watch. Held my interest the whole way through. The style was interesting and of course, Gary Oldman was excellent.

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