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488) WAKE UP DEAD MAN

(2025 dir. Rian Johnson) Date Seen: December 26 2025

arguably the best one of the 3 KNIVES OUT things (+ the most thematically complex & formally impressive).. Bravo, "girthy Johnson"

Rian's directorial output;

1. LOOPER (2012) *****

2. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM: 

                 OH BABY (2018) ****1/2

3. BRICK (2006) ****1/2

4. BROTHERS BLOOM (2009) ****

5. WAKE UP DEAD MAN (2025) ****

6. STAR WARS: LAST JEDI (2017) ****

7. KNIVES OUT (2019) ***1/2

8. EVIL DEMON 

GOLF BALL FROM HELL ('97) ***1/2

9. PSYCHOLOGY OF 

           DREAM ANALYSIS (2002) ***

10. GLASS ONION (2022) **1/2

11. MOUNTAIN GOATS: 

                WOKE UP NEW (2008) **1/2

12. MOUNTAIN GOATS: 

LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME (2010) **1/2

487) PRESENCE

(2025 dir. Steven Soderbergh) Date Seen: December 26 2025