★★½ Both the good and the bad of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One can be summed up by a sequence early on that told me more about the film than anything else on its own did. A group of government heads are having an intelligence meeting about the central threat – a rogue […]
★★½ Let me start with this. Good Will Hunting is an Oscar satire. It’s a fine – if incomplete – movie in its own right, but when you look at it from a distance, two things stand out. The first is that Matt Damon had mired himself in way too many Zinn-ified revisionisms and pre-Revolutionary […]
★★½ Love Hard is an enjoyable, sweet, uplifting Christmas picture stemming from a silly premise and full of needless references to silly cultural questions outside it. It’s awful… yet I’m embarrassed to admit that I liked it. I don’t like reviewing movies like this. Not because I hate watching them, but rather because both romance […]
★★½ Entropic inversion and square symmetry – enabling the kind of review you can read forwards or backwards. I promised to keep this review short, since Tenet did all the talking and far too much of it. So you may not need more from me than just a concept-illustrating phrase. While the Sator Square is […]
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