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Derek Smith

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Biography:

I am 26 years old and a recent college graduate working/living in San Diego. I have always loved movies, but the obsession took over about 5 years ago. Aside from movies, I enjoy reading, sports, and hanging out with friends.

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http://www.cinematicreflections.com/Masterpieces.html

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San Diego

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http://www.apolloguide.com

Reviews

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Basquiat (1996) 67% “It’s in the quieter, more character-based scenes that the film at least begins to penetrate Basquiat’s mystique, homing in on his vulnerability, sense of wonder, and how he sees the world around him. ” – Slant Magazine Apr 25, 2025 Full Review Prince of Broadway (2008) 86% “Prince of Broadway is, by and large, a vibrant, intimate, and richly detailed, moving beyond mere representation to unflinchingly depict the joys and tragedies of the community it depicts.” – Slant Magazine Apr 21, 2025 Full Review The Accountant 2 (2025) 78% 2/4 “As The Accountant 2 drags out to over two hours, and its two storylines remain tonally at war with one another, it becomes increasingly clear that, two films in, this series still hasn’t figured out exactly what it wants to be.” – Slant Magazine Apr 18, 2025 Full Review Choice of Arms (1981) “The film emphasizes the possibilities and discrepancies between reality as it is and as the protagonist sees it or wants it to be.” – Slant Magazine Mar 31, 2025 Full Review Serie Noire (1979) “The film emphasizes the possibilities and discrepancies between reality as it is and as the protagonist sees it or wants it to be.” – Slant Magazine Mar 31, 2025 Full Review The Case Against Ferro (1976) “The film emphasizes the possibilities and discrepancies between reality as it is and as the protagonist sees it or wants it to be.” – Slant Magazine Mar 31, 2025 Full Review When Fall Is Coming (2024) 95% 2.5/4 “The film is a bit too muddled to bring its main character fully into focus, despite Hélène Vincent’s best efforts to do so.” – Slant Magazine Mar 30, 2025 Full Review A Working Man (2025) 49% 1.5/4 “David Ayer’s film proceeds as an unambiguous celebration of its hero’s vigilantism.” – Slant Magazine Mar 26, 2025 Full Review A Woman of Paris (1923) 94% “For Charlie Chaplin, the film was a dream project that defied expectations.” – Slant Magazine Mar 19, 2025 Full Review Zero City (1988) 86% “Karen Shakhnazarov’s absurdist satire Zerograd paints a vivid, unnerving portrait of a nation-state whose warped vision of itself has begun to crack.” – Slant Magazine Mar 12, 2025 Full Review Prague Nights (1969) “The segments readily whip up dense, moody atmospheres that are as playfully provocative as they are eerily doom-laden.” – Slant Magazine Mar 8, 2025 Full Review The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025) 97% 3/4 “The Ballad of Wallis Island plays both its drama and comedy in decidedly minor keys, straining neither for grand emotional revelations nor big laughs.” – Slant Magazine Mar 8, 2025 Full Review Crossing Delancey (1988) 82% “Rom-coms could stand to take notes from its earnest, intense sense of compassion and depth of feeling for its main character’s conflicted affections.” – Slant Magazine Mar 4, 2025 Full Review The Quiet Ones (2025) 42% 2.5/4 “The Quiet Ones is a reminder of the simple pleasures of a caper film with ice in its veins.” – Slant Magazine Feb 16, 2025 Full Review 2000 Meters to Andriivka (2025) 95% 3/4 “The interjections of quotidian reflection give a fullness and emotional resonance to a film that can, at times, be borderline oppressive in its depiction of war’s brutality.” – Slant Magazine Feb 2, 2025 Full Review Predators (2025) 97% 3.5/4 “David Osit’s trenchant documentary recognizes that To Catch a Predator sold humiliation as entertainment in the guise of legitimizing law-and-order punitivism.” – Slant Magazine Jan 31, 2025 Full Review The Things You Kill (2025) 96% 3/4 “Alireza Khatami’s third feature is a subtly enigmatic examination of the nature of masculinity.” – Slant Magazine Jan 25, 2025 Full Review Beauty of the Underworld (1958) “Even in 1958, Suzuki was already on the same wavelength as other future Japanese New Wave directors from the get-go.” – Slant Magazine Jan 24, 2025 Full Review Weak Spot (1975) “An atmosphere of violence and paranoia pervades Peter Fleischmann’s 1975 thriller Weak Spot from its opening shot.” – Slant Magazine Jan 12, 2025 Full Review Hatari! (1962) 65% “For all of Hatari!’s built-in references to so many of Howard Hawks’s films, it’s ultimately quite unlike anything else he ever made.” – Slant Magazine Dec 31, 2024 Full Review 2073 (2024) 48% 1/4 “A clunky fusion of sci-fi fiction and political documentary, Asif Kapadia’s 2073 shakes us into submission via a series of cursory rundowns of crumbling democracies, the weaponization of social media, rising xenophobia, and more.” – Slant Magazine Dec 18, 2024 Full Review Theater of Thought (2022) 73% 2.5/4 “It’s as if by being confronted by new innovations that appear to have come straight out of a sci-fi film, Werner Herzog exercises his galaxy brain to see what we could be capable of a decade, even a century, from now.” – Slant Magazine Dec 9, 2024 Full Review Funny Girl (1968) 95% “Funny Girl endures precisely because of the strength of Streisand’s magnetic performance.” – Slant Magazine Nov 27, 2024 Full Review Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2024) 97% 2.5/4 “The film paints a vivid portrait of what life was like for Black South Africans under apartheid.” – Slant Magazine Nov 17, 2024 Full Review Japan's Violent Gangs-Boss (1969) “Tsukamoto and Miyahara’s unlikely friendship is the most satisfying subplot in a film that too often feels like a more thinly sketched version of Fukasaku Kinji’s later yakuza films.” – Slant Magazine Nov 14, 2024 Full Review
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