Reviews by abigailpearl

One of the best movies of all time. No one's life is complete without having seen this masterpiece.

You'll laugh, you'll cry, this movie will stick with you. What more can be said about a classic movie?
The Great Escape is funny and serious in good proportion. It has definitely aged well, being just as interesting, entertaining and relevant to modern audiences as it was the year it was released. I firmly believe that everyone should see this movie. Everyone.

Death Note is universally appealing. It has some kind of magic that digs in and holds fast to the heart of anyone watching. It is obviously well-written; the plot is solid, the suspense sublime, and the characters? Best Characters in Any Work of Fiction Anywhere Ever.
But even all these elements combined don't account for Death Note's magnitude of charm. Its whole is greater than the sum of its parts, great as that sum already was.
For a friend who just couldn't get into anime, I recommended Death Note. It's impossible not to get sucked in by the masterful writing, airtight characterization, and that indefinable something extra: that magic spell Death Note casts on its viewers.

The Decemberists have always been able to tell a good story. The story in The Hazards of Love, is, in my opinion, worthy of a movie or stage adaptation. It's interesting, gripping, at places terrifying, yet simple and rooted in the oldest traditions of story-telling. Without giving too much away, I'd like to mention that the song "The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)" is the most genius use of dissonance to create a mood of haunting terror that I have ever encountered outside an actual horror movie.