Raymond Zrike Patron

Favorite films

  • Groundhog Day
  • There Will Be Blood
  • School of Rock
  • Mildred Pierce

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  • The Phoenician Scheme

    ★★

  • Rodman: For Better or Worse

    ★★★★

  • Brouillard #14

    ★★★★½

  • Swish

    ★★

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The Last Dance

2020

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

“I would have loved to have won it here at home, but it didn’t happen. Everyone thought I could make the shot, and that’s the beauty of the game. For 1.1 seconds, everybody was holding their breath, which is kinda cute.”

I originally wrote a diatribe about the number of reviews complaining about this being "propaganda,” but then I read my entry from four years ago and realized I had opened that with almost the exact same thing. Writing and…

Air

2023

★★★ 4

Ford v Ferrari 2: Ben in Tights

This might already be well documented at this point, but I have to come clean: I have a mild fascination with Matt Damon and a more-than-mild fascination with Ben Affleck. They fascinate me. I am fascinated. I will explain.

As a society, we’ve progressed past the need for these two men. They’re vestigial, the male nipples of Hollywood, and yet they keep hanging on, despite the bombs (The Last Duel, Downsizing, Live by…

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The Phoenician Scheme

2025

★★ Watched

This is an endorsement coming from me. Only intolerable after we sur the length of The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (confirming my theories).

Black Bag

2025

★★★★ Watched

Michael Fassbender stumbles out in a trench coat, cigar in hand, “Ahh… just one more thing.”

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A Star Is Born

1976

3

Thirty minutes in, my mom turned to me and said, “See? This is why I hated the ‘70s.”

Caicedo (with Pole)

1894

1

Woah... that Library of Congress logo animation is really impressive for 1894. 😲