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July at the Movies

September 15, 2025
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  • Taylor Swift | The Official Release Party of a Showgirl, 2025 - ★★★
    Best part was definitely her deadpan introduction to Wood, insisting that it is, in fact, about superstition.
  • Training Day, 2001 - ★★★★ (contains spoilers)
    This review may contain spoilers. Denzel is mesmerizing in this film and it’s easy to see how Ethan Hawke’s rookie would fall under Alonzo’s spell. The ease with which he navigates the drug world, ‘the ends justify the means’, his promise to set Hawke’s Jake Hoyt up for Detective - all these aspects slowly drag […]
  • Ticket to Paradise, 2022 - ★★★★
    It’s easy to see why the critical consensus on this movie is middling, but the audience score on RT is so good. This is a feel good film like we used to get almost monthly in the 90s, a fact we definitely took for granted until it wasn’t true any longer. The director, Ol Parker, […]
  • A View to a Kill, 1985 - ★★
    This is easily the most American Bond film I've seen yet - fitting, since the Golden Gate Bridge and Silicon Valley feature prominently. The KGB plot line really wasn't needed, not that there was enough there to distract from the central conflict. A young Christopher Walken absolutely chews the scenery, and Grace Jones is as […]
  • City on Fire, 1987 - ★★½
    I'm really not sure where to come down on this movie. The film is critically acclaimed, with an 88% aggregate critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, but a slightly lower audience score (it's currently at 3.6 here on Letterboxd). Also, the films' influence can't be ignored - Quentin Tarantino has been accused of plagiarizing the film […]

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