Mitchell Allen Pro

Favorite films

  • There Will Be Blood
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • A Serious Man
  • Finding Nemo

All
  • Brent Weinbach: Popular Culture

    ★★★½

  • The Phoenician Scheme

  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

    ★★★★

  • Asteroid City

    ★★★★

More
Brent Weinbach: Popular Culture

2025

★★★½ Liked Watched

The first 5 or so minutes is beyond belief. Doesn't always sustain that high but consistently surprising

The Phoenician Scheme

2025

Liked Watched

Not settled on this one, and would be foolish to go off of first impressions here. But one of the more elusive ones for me, which may end up lending to its intrigue. I think on first glance it doesn't have the thrill of discovery every single other one has, but I'm open to burrowing deeper. This filmmaker has earned that... Another thing I will say is I can't tell if this film is for math guys or taking the piss out of math guys

More
Animal Behaviour

2018

★★ 4

What if BoJack Horseman wasn’t clever?

Porcelain War

2024

★½ 1

Struggling with the efficacy of this, which while featuring pretty bravura sequences scattered within it, essentially bungles its selling point (namely the porcelain part). Feels like there's ample opportunity to connect the dots between the insistence of the artist to create and the solider to press on, but it's far too interested in the latter, and seemingly uninterested in interrogating any of it past a surface level. At the Q&A it was revealed that the soldiers do sculpting at night…