The Long Shot
Sean Wagner-McGoughMovie essays, thoughts, rankings, reviews, and more.
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Is Killers of the Flower Moon too long?
There’s a scene near the beginning of Killers of the Flower Moon that serves as an exercise in patience. Lily Gladstone’s character, Mollie, invites Leonardo DiCaprio’s Ernest, who is trying to win her heart and oil rights, inside for dinne...
Every new movie I watched in 2022, ranked
Hello movie friends — a quick update before today’s post:
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I start my last semester of law school next week, so the newsletters will be sparse over the coming months (I do have an Academy Awards post planned).
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But The Long Shot wil...
Glass Onion: As fragile and hollow as its name suggests
It wasn’t until the end that I understood why Knives Out 2 is titled Glass Onion. The movie is as fragile and hollow as its name suggests. Sure, it might be perfectly pleasant, but crack open its superficial layer and nothing of substance r...
Tom Cruise v. Time
Tom Cruise has been battling MiGs, arms dealers, rogue nations, Hitler, and extraterrestrials for as long as I’ve been alive. Yet it wasn’t until Top Gun: Maverick that Cruise finally confronted his true and ultimate nemesis, an enemy he’ll...
The future of Predator in a picture
So. Yeah. It’s been a while.
When I started The Long Shot, my aim was to write once a week so that every Monday morning, you’d wake up to a newsletter in your inbox — probably buried in your promotions tab where you’d never see it, click...
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