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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.

Favorites:

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

Location:

San Diego

Official Website:

http://www.apolloguide.com

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
To Hold a Mountain (2026) 3/4 EDIT “The documentary ultimately reveals itself as a paean to female strength and resistance. ” – Slant Magazine Jan 26, 2026 Full Review House Party (1990) 94% EDIT “There are elements here that are best left in the ’90s, but its joyful, nuanced portrait of Black teenage experience has aged quite nicely. ” – Slant Magazine Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Greenland 2: Migration (2026) 51% 2/4 EDIT “Greenland 2 plays out as a much more generic thriller than its predecessor.” – Slant Magazine Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) 81% 2.5/4 EDIT “Beyond the delightfully madcap, swashbuckling adventure taking full advantage of the animators’ creative dexterity, the film is dotted with the whacky humor and ingenious puns that fans of the series have some to expect.” – Slant Magazine Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 2/4 EDIT “Song Sung Blue is content to pendulum-swing from triumph to tragedy and back again with all the self-control of a drunk driver.” – Slant Magazine Dec 14, 2025 Full Review Salaam Bombay! (1988) 93% EDIT “Mira Nair brings a documentarian’s sensibility to her texturally rich narrative feature debut” – Slant Magazine Dec 12, 2025 Full Review The House with Laughing Windows (1976) EDIT “Pupi Avati’s criminally underseen giallo from 1976 brims with enigmatic dread.” – Slant Magazine Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% 3/4 EDIT “Zootopia 2 provides plenty of food for thought for its young audience, making a more expansive statement on the dangers of intolerance than the first film, and without sacrificing any of its charm, humor, or visual ingenuity along the way.” – Slant Magazine Nov 25, 2025 Full Review The Taste of Violence (1961) EDIT “The austerity that Hossein was prone to as an artist serves The Taste of Violence well.” – Slant Magazine Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Nude in a White Car (1960) EDIT “Pity that the film’s dry, self-serious tone only brings a certain leadenness to the proceedings.” – Slant Magazine Nov 20, 2025 Full Review The Wicked Go to Hell (1956) EDIT “The Wicked Go to Hell is marked by its lean, efficient narrative and stark visual style.” – Slant Magazine Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Burden of Dreams (1982) 92% EDIT “Burden of Dreams attests to Les Blank’s egalitarian approach to documentation.” – Slant Magazine Nov 16, 2025 Full Review Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) 60% 1.5/4 EDIT “As with its predecessors, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t is completely uninterested in convincing its audience that any of the Four Horsemen’s bombastic tricks could ever be accomplished by any actual human being. ” – Slant Magazine Nov 11, 2025 Full Review The Fiend of Athens (1956) EDIT “The film is a potent and relevant portrait of the manly art of self-delusion.” – Slant Magazine Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Deep Crimson (1996) 91% EDIT “The film is a mordantly funny and disturbing tale of deception, obsession, and desperation.” – Slant Magazine Oct 27, 2025 Full Review The White House Effect (2024) 94% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film meticulously yet concisely probes how, why, and when our understanding of the greenhouse effect went from a scientific certainty to it being up for debate.” – Slant Magazine Oct 26, 2025 Full Review Regretting You (2025) 29% 1.5/4 EDIT “The decision to have Allison Williams and Dave Franco, both in their late 30s when the film was shot, play their characters as teens may be the most egregious example of Regretting You’s indifference to verisimilitude.” – Slant Magazine Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Dreams (2024) 90% 3/4 EDIT “A story of hazy memories that’s also a city symphony, Dreams elegantly captures the disorienting rush of first love and the frustrations and anguish that stem from romantic fantasies colliding with reality.” – Slant Magazine Sep 5, 2025 Full Review Saving Face (2004) 88% EDIT “Saving Face is a coming-out story that elicits plenty of universal truths.” – Slant Magazine Sep 1, 2025 Full Review Preparation for the Next Life (2025) 97% EDIT “One small, shrewd decision after another allows Preparation for the Next Life to sustain its naturalism to the end.” – Slant Magazine Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Route One/USA (1989) EDIT “A work of poetic portraiture that’s prismatic and expansive, yet intensely intimate, Route One/USA unfurls as an extended series of snapshots of America, and while it’s leftist in spirit, there’s no grandstanding here.” – Slant Magazine Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Nobody 2 (2025) 76% 2/4 EDIT “Behind the violence and gore, Nobody 2 only offers the skeleton of a narrative.” – Slant Magazine Aug 13, 2025 Full Review The Home (2025) 29% 1/4 EDIT “This is a hodgepodge of jump scares and disturbing imagery in search of a cohesive story.” – Slant Magazine Jul 24, 2025 Full Review Carnal Knowledge (1971) 89% EDIT “Mike Nichols’s divisive fourth feature is a fascinating cultural artifact.” – Slant Magazine Jul 21, 2025 Full Review You Can Count on Me (2000) 95% EDIT “Age hasn’t dulled the heartache of Kenneth Lonergan’s finely tuned portrayal of grief. ” – Slant Magazine Jul 19, 2025 Full Review
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