Rafael Reyes
Head Writer, Features And News Director at Monster RX93.1's Official Podcast Channel
Corporate Writer. Majent Group of Companies. Founding Features & News Director, Monster @rx931. Radio Announcer. OG host of “Heard On Thursdays”.
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6 days ago |
letterboxd.com | Rafael Reyes |Steven Soderbergh
★★★ An intricate, witty spy thriller screenplay by David Koepp and a game, attractive cast are let down by – how do I put it – muddy visuals and flat, dim lighting. This wants to be a fleet Stanley Donen / Hitchcockian caper, but I don’t know why director Steven Soderbergh – who otherwise directs fleetly – has such an, I hate to say it, humdrum visual aesthetic and unglamorous palette. So that even when he deploys a long cut-less tracking shot a la De Palma and Scorsese, as he does at the...
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2 weeks ago |
letterboxd.com | Rafael Reyes |Ryan Coogler
It’s really just a generic (in the best way) vampire flick (or a big-budget “American Horror Story”), dressed up with historical texture, tony gloss, and social consciousness, but fun. The civics lesson goes down easy because writer-director Ryan Coogler is a skilled craftsman (except perhaps in terms of overall movie length) and the way he plays around with genres is not off-putting, but engaging.
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2 weeks ago |
letterboxd.com | Rafael Reyes |Roberto Rossellini
★★★★★ Brutal and healing at the same time. Incredibly humane and indubitably Catholic. My first time watch – in honor of Pope Francis.
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1 month ago |
letterboxd.com | Rafael Reyes |Christopher Landon
★★★ A nice, tight Hitchcockian thriller with a clever, modern-day premise – until the last third when it becomes “Taken” or “Die Hard” – one over-the-top scene piling on another. My friend Hazel lost it after one character dangled off the side of a building, hanging on to a…tablecloth, was it? It was classy until it became a Netflix B-movie actioner. Certain of the audience (full theater because it was an advance screening) were gasping during the “nailbiting” climax, so I guess the...
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1 month ago |
letterboxd.com | Rafael Reyes
Horrible. Just horrible. I don’t hate it. I’m not hating on it because of its much-publicized issues. I just find it horrible. Okay, I hate it. I can take a woke DEI female-empowerment fairy tale. I expect them and even welcome them in the current media age. (See: “Emilia Perez”.) I guess what piqued me was foisting that kind of fairy tale on poor defenseless “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, which is very much NOT THAT in the first place. To what point?
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A ★★★ review of Black Bag (2025) by @rafaelpreyes931 on @letterboxd: https://t.co/YYn89L9mzQ Wants to be a sleek Stanley Donen/Hitchcockian entertainment. It has its pleasures, but to my eyes it doesn't look fabulous.
I wish the movie had a better title, but “From Dusk Till Dawn” has been taken. A ★★★★ review of Sinners (2025) by @rafaelpreyes931 on @letterboxd: https://t.co/nntdzkP33d
Brutal and healing at the same time. Incredibly humane and indubitably Catholic. My first time watch – in honor of Pope Francis. No wonder it was one of his favorite movies. The scenes sear the mind. I am haunted. Indisputably a classic. https://t.co/e5ghe1tN1O