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Film5000 Project

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I'm not a film critic, just a passionate movie buff. I was born in 1971, studied film in New York during the early ʼ90s, and have lived and worked on the outskirts of the industry all my adult life. Love reading about people's thoughts on cinema.

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Film5000 Project @film5000.bsky.social · 7h

#BlueMoon ('25) ★★★+ A captivating, theatrical, meditative, melancholy comedy about the great songwriter Lorenz Hart, brought lovingly to the screen by the unexpected (for this material) duo of Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke. www.film5000.com/2025/blue-mo...

Richard Linklater is an odd choice as director, and his frequent collaborator, Ethan Hawke, is a strange choice as star for this theatrical, meditative, melancholy comedy about the great songwriter...

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#IfIHadLegsIdKickYou ('25) ★★★+ Rose Byrne delivers a relentlessly compelling performance as a mother whose life is crashing down around her in the movie NightBitch could have been if it had the guts. www.film5000.com/2025/if-i-ha...

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

I do love a memorable title, and this movie lives up to its unusual moniker. Rose Byrne delivers a relentlessly compelling performance as a therapist named Linda whose life is crashing down around ...

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#TronAres ('25) ★ We might have to just admit that 1982's Tron is not a substantial enough property to build an entire series or universe around. www.film5000.com/2025/tron:-a...

How did Disney manage to screw this concept up worse and worse with each attempt? The flaws in the first Tron are understandable. The filmmakers were trying to push the envelope with dazzling new t...

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Film5000 Project @film5000.bsky.social · 3d

#springsteendelivermefromnowhere ('25) ★ Combining boomer biopic and millennial apology porn, the latest reductive music bio explores the artistic process behind an iconic album using cinematic's most uncreative forms of expression. www.film5000.com/2025/springs...

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

Writer/director Scott Cooper manages to combine my two least favorite types of movie—boomer biopic and millennial apology porn—and adds the now-fully-coalesced terrible Gen-X filmmaker trope of sub...

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Film5000 Project @film5000.bsky.social · 19d

#thelongwalk ('25) ★★ + Stephen King's allegory for the Vietnam draft now plays more like a bleak yet comforting Gen-Z Rollerball, in which most of the characters are kind and supportive to each other, even though that makes no sense. www.film5000.com/2025/the-lon...

This relentlessly bleak, laughably illogical, yet undeniably compelling picture is the latest adaptation from Stephen King's seemingly endless supply of lesser-known novels and short stories (this ...

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Film5000 Project @film5000.bsky.social · 20d

#downtonabbeythegrandfinale ('25) ★★ This least grand finale imaginable is what ChatGPT would write for you if you fed it all the prior Downton scripts and asked it to write a final movie that gives every character about the same number of lines. www.film5000.com/2025/downton...

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

Downton Abbey is the last TV show I watched every episode of, before essentially swearing off all new television, so I wasn't gonna skip the movies. The first series of Julian Fellowes' delightful ...

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Film5000 Project @film5000.bsky.social · Sep 25

#OneBattleAfterAnother ('25) ★★ PTA's shaggy yet tense combination of vibes movie and epic chase picture, sprinkled with side-eyed political commentary and dark humor, sure isn't the movie I think these times call for. www.film5000.com/2025/one-bat...

One Battle After Another

Paul Thomas Anderson's epic political thriller is the most hotly anticipated film of the year. The sprawling action movie was shot in VistaVision and is even playing at a few theaters in its native...

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Film5000 Project @film5000.bsky.social · Sep 24

#SpinalTap2TheEndContinues ('25) ★ The cinematic equivalent of the old Chris Farley Show sketch on SNL done without intention or irony: "Hey, you remember... that time... when you said your amps went to 11? That was awesome."
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

For four decades, the peerless comedy combo of Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer have found creative ways to keep their Spinal Tap characters (and copyright) alive, dusting off t...

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Film5000 Project @film5000.bsky.social · Sep 12

#TheBaltimorons ('25) ★★★+ Michael Strassner and Liz Larsen shine as mismatched strangers on a refreshingly low-key yet emotionally high-stakes misadventure through Baltimore on Christmas Eve in Jay Duplass' delightfully melancholy alt-holiday comedy. www.film5000.com/2025/the-bal...

The Baltimorons

Jay Duplass, who, along with his younger brother Mark, was a major force in the DIY filmmaking movement dubbed "mumblecore" in the Aughts, makes his solo directorial debut with this all-in-one-day ...

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Film5000 Project @film5000.bsky.social · Sep 10

#splitsville ('25) ★★★★ 4 friends attempt to unlock the secrets to relationship happiness by experimenting with open marriage in this hilarious, wonderfully-crafted, surprisingly relatable farce from filmmaker/stars Michael Angelo Covino & Kyle Marvin. www.film5000.com/2025/splitsv...

The sophomore outing of writer/producer/director Michael Angelo Covino and writer/producer Kyle Marvin (who together run the production company Watch This Ready) is a hilarious farce about modern m...

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Film5000 Project @film5000.bsky.social · Sep 9

#caughtstealing ('25) ★★+ Aronofsky crafts an amusing if forgettable genre exercise made to evoke the post-RezDogs crime indies that flooded screens in the '90s; Austin Butler leads a terrific cast with fun turns by Liev Schreiber and Vincent D'Onofrio. www.film5000.com/2025/caught-...

Caught Stealing

Austin Butler leads a terrific cast in this '90s-era New York period piece, shot, designed, and tricked out to evoke the vibe of the myriad low-budget indie crime capers that flooded cinemas after ...

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Film5000 Project @film5000.bsky.social · Aug 29

#lurker ★★+ Russell's debut about relationship dynamics of male twentysomethings looking for acceptance captures universal & timeless truths, but the world of the characters & the visual look are so off-putting it's hard (for an old guy like me) to care. www.film5000.com/2025/lurker/...

The debut feature by TV writer turned director Alex Russell follows a twenty-something clothing store clerk named Matthew (Théodore Pellerin) who falls in with a rising pop star named Oliver (Archi...

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Film5000 Project @film5000.bsky.social · Aug 14

#honeydont ('25) ★ Throw-Away Dolls
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The second installment in a trilogy of unconnected lesbian action/comedy B-pictures from writer/producer/director Ethan Coen and writer/producer/editor Tricia Cooke is so lazy and half-baked it bar...

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Film5000 Project @film5000.bsky.social · Aug 12

#TheNakedGun ('25) ★★★+ Akiva Schaffer and co pull off an impressive feat, not just remaking the beloved ZAZ spoof movie without embarrassing themselves but delivering one of the funniest studio comedies we've gotten in many, many years. www.film5000.com/2025/the-nak...

The Lonely Island's Akiva Schaffer helms this remake of the much-loved David Zucker/Jim Abrahams/Jerry Zucker spoof movie classic, The Naked Gun. The original 1988 film was based on the ZAZ team's ...

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Film5000 Project @film5000.bsky.social · Aug 11

#Eddington ('25) ★★+ Aster's COVID-era thiller plays like a filmmaker processing thoughts in real-time rather than ruminating on complex situations & themes. Not an issue if his observations were different from what most of us have thought about every day since 2020. www.film5000.com/2025/eddingt...

Ari Aster's neo-western period-piece-about-today stars Joaquin Phoenix as the sheriff of the titular New Mexico town, who makes a series of reactionary decisions as a result of his town's COVID-19 ...

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Film5000 Project @film5000.bsky.social · Aug 8

#together ('25) ★★ Michael Shanks' middling debut feature is a body horror relationship allegory about an insecure couple whose tenuous connection is tested when they're taken over by mysterious forces discovered in the woods surrounding their new house. www.film5000.com/2025/togethe...

Real-life partners Dave Franco and Alison Brie play an insecure, unmarried couple well past the seven-year itch phase who take the plunge and move to a big old house in the country. Their commitmen...

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Film5000 Project @film5000.bsky.social · Aug 4

#28YearsLater ('25) ★★ Danny Boyle and Alex Garland continue the zombie-apocalypse horror series they kicked off in 2002, although this movie feels less like a three-decades-later legasequel and more like an overlong pilot for a new franchise. www.film5000.com/2025/28-year...

More of the same from director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland, which will delight fans of the first two 28 ___ Later movies. I, unfortunately, never clicked with this zombie-apocalypse h...

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Film5000 Project @film5000.bsky.social · Jul 27

#badshabbos ('25) ★ Tonally incompetent, laughless farse aims for something like Home for the Holidays crossed with Shiva Baby but ends up little more than a feature-length sitcom dressed in quirky Sundance clothing. www.film5000.com/2025/bad-sha...

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Film5000 Project @film5000.bsky.social · Jul 26

#Materialists ('25) ★★★ Song follows up Past Lives with more mainstream romantic drama about decidedly unromantic NYC matchmaker torn between her perfect match and her imperfect ex-boyfriend. Johnson lacks the submerged warmth necessary for this story to truly sing. www.film5000.com/2025/materia...

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Film5000 Project @film5000.bsky.social · Jul 24

#superman ('25) ★ Nothing about the decades-old, optimistic mythology translates well to a contemporary milieu, especially not with Gunn’s sloppy, jokey, exposition-leaden yet logic-hole-riddled writing. www.film5000.com/2025/superma...

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Film5000 Project @film5000.bsky.social · Jul 19

#Jaws@50 ('25) ★★+ As one might expect from a film with an ampersand in its title, this retelling of oft-told tales about the creation and legacy of one of the cinema's greatest works is more of a glorified home video bonus feature than a genuine documentary. www.film5000.com/2025/jaws-50...

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

As one should expect from director Laurent Bouzereau, this is less a documentary film than an extended version of the bonus features he crafted for special edition DVDs and Blu-rays. Indeed, Bouzer...

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Film5000 Project @film5000.bsky.social · Jul 18

#ThePhoenicianScheme ('25) ★★ Nice change of pace for Anderson to have a story with only three principal characters, and the leads bring a lot of color and detail to an otherwise bland and uninspired canvas. www.film5000.com/2025/the-pho...

The Phoenician Scheme

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Film5000 Project @film5000.bsky.social · Jul 17

#TheLifeOfChuck ('25) ★ In this high-concept in search of a point, Mike Flanagan takes Stephen King's penchant for mawkish sentimentality and cranks it up to 11. www.film5000.com/2025/the-lif...

The Life of Chuck

The latest from the director of Oculus, Gerald's Game, and Doctor Sleep is advertised in the trailer as coming "From the heart and soul of Mike Flanagan." When a filmmaker under 50 years of age, kn...

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Film5000 Project @film5000.bsky.social · Jul 11

#theshrouds ('25) ★★★ Cronenberg's darkly humorous meditation on grief and loss is a characteristically unsettling body horror picture about the inventor of tombstone monitoring technology that enables mourners to view their decomposing loved ones via 3D imaging. www.film5000.com/2025/the-shr...

The latest from the master of body horror, David Cronenberg, stars Vincent Cassel as Karsh, an entrepreneur who, after losing his young wife to cancer, invents a tombstone monitoring technology cal...

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Film5000 Project @film5000.bsky.social · Jul 10

#TheLifeOfChuck ('25) ★ In this high-concept in search of a point, Mike Flanagan takes Stephen King's penchant for mawkish sentimentality and cranks it up to 11. www.film5000.com/2025/the-lif...

The Life of Chuck

The latest from the director of Oculus, Gerald's Game, and Doctor Sleep is advertised in the trailer as coming "From the heart and soul of Mike Flanagan." When a filmmaker under 50 years of age, kn...

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