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Josh MatthewsMay 19, 2023
I get this question now about once a week, usually from younger men. I suspect that they realize their education, in schools or wherever, could've and should've been better. Thankfully, they realize the Internet allows for a good deal of self-education. If you are asking…
Josh MatthewsDecember 13, 2021
Soul 2020 ★★½ Watched Dec 27, 2020 joshmatthews’s review published on Letterboxd: "Soul" represents to me the first full-fledged adults-only movie from Pixar. Yes, it has some slapstick and a body-swap plot involving a human in a cat's body. Kids might laugh at that. But the movie heavily emphasizes the middle-age,…
Josh MatthewsDecember 28, 2020
On the Waterfront 1954 ★★★★★ Rewatched Nov 12, 2020 joshmatthews’s review published on Letterboxd: Strong anti-mob, maybe pro-Catholic movie about a dock worker, or longshoreman, who works for the American mob in NYC. The mob controls the longshoremen's union. The waterfront's a spot of high corruption, therefore, yet a passionate…
Josh MatthewsDecember 24, 2020
Eyes Without a Face 1960 ★½ Watched Nov 21, 2020 joshmatthews’s review published on Letterboxd: Possibly the most overrated "underrated" movie ever, "Eyes Without a Face" is one single premise with little development of it, stretched (pun!) over 90 minutes. Think about "The Twilight Zone." What that show coudl do…
Josh MatthewsDecember 22, 2020
Heaven’s Gate 1980 ★★½ Watched Nov 23, 2020 joshmatthews’s review published on Letterboxd: The goal for all viewers of a film, I think, is to find the right ways to watch it. Of course, not all movies are linear, obvious, beautiful, or clear. Probably the promise of Heaven's Gate, that…
Josh MatthewsDecember 22, 2020
Sullivan’s Travels 1941 ★★★★★ Rewatched Nov 30, 2020 joshmatthews’s review published on Letterboxd: Just when I was going to accuse the movie of saccharine sentimentalism, it whammed me (again) with the third act, which introduces a real plot problem, that director John L Sullivan also gets whammed, left for dead,…
Josh MatthewsDecember 21, 2020
Chinatown 1974 ★★★½ Rewatched Dec 03, 2020 joshmatthews’s review published on Letterboxd: Tough to review an "American classic" because of expectations. First, I tried but could not shake all the LA Noir I've read. Easy starters there: Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald. The latter is a master, too much so, and…
Josh MatthewsDecember 21, 2020
Five Easy Pieces 1970 ★★★★½ Watched Dec 06, 2020 joshmatthews’s review published on Letterboxd: American drifter movies, by 1970, were a dime a dozen, as they had been in literature forever. Somehow "Five Easy Pieces" stands out, probably because it is an epic as much as lyric. The textures are…
Josh MatthewsDecember 21, 2020
