Josh Lewis

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Favorite films

  • Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
  • Lost Highway
  • Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
  • Thief

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  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

    ★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • Fight or Flight

    ★★★

  • The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

    ★★★★★

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  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

    ★★★

    Listen, I here you... and yet it's still 88 minutes of impressively elaborate and tangible Jim Henson creature shop puppets doing Golden Harvest Hong Kong stunt fighting. At one point they do it in the middle of a Vanilla Ice concert. Sue me! It's also shot on film in NYC where everyone is enjoying the BIG SLICE, David Warner is running around with canisters of GREEN SLIME, and the tone of this one is closer to the cartoon I watched…

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★

    Pretty easy to see how this material appealed to a guy who has made a number of dystopia/creature films that build well-designed thriller sequences and strange, often grotesquely textured world-building detail around broad political and class satires about little guys resisting the gruesome bureaucratic machinery that organizes their lives. And for the most part Bong Joon-ho makes the leap to mainstream Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster with just enough of his weird quirks and fixations for this to be perfectly enjoyable. I…

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  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

    The Grand Budapest Hotel

    ★★★★

    Is it possible to frame an entire feature film and hang it on your wall? Have we discovered how to do this? Asking for a friend.

  • Uncut Gems

    Uncut Gems

    ★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.