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Taylor Baker

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Biography:

Taylor Baker lives and works in Seattle, Washington. He co-founded Drink in the Movies in 2018 with Michael Clawson. Drink in the Movies is a film podcast and website featuring reviews, interviews with industry professionals, and festival coverage. When he's not rewatching Logan Lucky he can often be seen drinking coffee, playing with his cat, and on most weekday evenings with his back on the mat learning BJJ.

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Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Wick Is Pain (2025) 100% 72/100 EDIT “Wick is Pain, settles all that noise into a straightforward documentary about the labor of love and behind-the-scenes feuds that turned a little indie action film into another conglomerate film universe with its numerous spin-offs.” – Drink in the Movies Oct 6, 2025 Full Review 28 Years Later (2025) 88% 82/100 EDIT “The world is so lived-in, the cinematography so energizing, and the performances so convincing that one can’t be bothered by the narrative convention we’re witnessing.” – Drink in the Movies Oct 6, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% 94/100 EDIT “A reinterpretation for a new generation, showing that while time turns, things don’t change too much. As the film unfolds, its secret societies, larger-than-life characters, and cartoonish grandiosity give way to a fable steeped in realism.” – Drink in the Movies Oct 6, 2025 Full Review Invention (2024) 95% 67/100 EDIT “The handheld cinematography creates an intimate, secretive quality, as if we’re witnessing memories in the process of forming. This isn’t the polished grief of Hollywood but something rawer and more recognizable.” – Drink in the Movies Aug 20, 2025 Full Review Bring Them Down (2024) 89% 60/100 EDIT “The narrow scope—both in location and character count—allows Andrews to craft a singularly focused debut that manages to be simple and engaging. ” – Drink in the Movies Aug 20, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 68% 82/100 EDIT “In the end, Eddington emerges as a singular and sickly American fable, destined to leave nearly equal amounts of dissatisfaction and amusement in its wake.” – Drink in the Movies Aug 20, 2025 Full Review The Girl With the Needle (2024) 92% 88/100 EDIT “The direction is restrained but elegant in its precision, often leaving the camera in place and delicately zooming in and out to accentuate an otherwise static composition. Cinematographer Michal Dymek deftly frames interiors and captures exquisite light” – Drink in the Movies Oct 5, 2024 Full Review Julie Keeps Quiet (2024) 93% 76/100 EDIT “It’s impossible to detect that this is Leonardo Van Dijl’s feature debut as he expertly places Tessa Van den Broeck–in her debut performance–front and center, capturing her performance of Julie through physical action with many long static shots cleverly” – Drink in the Movies Sep 30, 2024 Full Review Planet B (2024) 20/100 EDIT “Another year, another Adèle Exarchopoulos film, and for the first time in a while, a colossal misfire. Planet B, Aude Léa Rapin’s sophomore feature, is the type of science fiction film that makes a typical fan of the genre...have feelings of lamentation.” – Drink in the Movies Sep 29, 2024 Full Review Megalopolis (2024) 46% 76/100 EDIT “It reminds one of Stefan Zweig in his last days, longing toward a past Vienna he lived through as a child, that...perhaps never entirely existed in the way he remembers. Did the Western world ever value the Socratic method as much as Francis hopes?I” – Drink in the Movies Sep 29, 2024 Full Review Alien: Romulus (2024) 80% 30/100 EDIT “We’re all under the boot of an all-consuming empire, indeed. If only this finished product didn’t remind one quite so much of its final villain.” – Drink in the Movies Aug 16, 2024 Full Review I Saw the TV Glow (2024) 85% 54/100 EDIT “I Saw the TV Glow is another exploration of the truths and falsity we find growing up in the suburbs of America, how impactful each viewer finds this rendition of these ideas and feelings will determine how much they do or don’t enjoy it.” – Drink in the Movies Jul 26, 2024 Full Review Mothers' Instinct (2024) 55% 54/100 EDIT “...avoids striking visual choice and opts for familiar patinas and frames, and lets his stars do the heavy lifting. There’s certainly something to appreciate, though one senses this film reads better off the page than it does witnessed on the screen.” – Drink in the Movies Jul 26, 2024 Full Review Tuesday (2023) 76% 50/100 EDIT “Should Oniunas-Pusić further develop her tone control, she’ll become a filmmaker to contend with. Tuesday is a sloppy and sincere mixed bag, heavily reliant on middling CGI.” – Drink in the Movies Jul 26, 2024 Full Review Hit Man (2023) 95% 78/100 EDIT “Hit Man is a smile and a wink. It’s charming and knows it; it’s fun and knows it; it’s flimsy and celebrates it. Splendidly cast, well-directed, and pleasant to watch, it may feel like a live-action cartoon, but what’s more Americana than that?” – Drink in the Movies Jul 26, 2024 Full Review Coup de Chance (2023) 84% 80/100 EDIT “While feeling old hat in many ways, Coup de Chance also feels like a fresh breath in. At its best, a Woody Allen film can charm us all into it. Sure, it’s a familiar scenario, but the score and editing punctuate each note with care.” – Drink in the Movies Jul 26, 2024 Full Review Kinds of Kindness (2024) 71% 75/100 EDIT “Kinds of Kindness is one of the sharpest films of the year and a real performance showcase for Plemons and Stone. It doesn’t reach the heights that Alps or The Favourite did, nor is it trying to.” – Drink in the Movies Jul 26, 2024 Full Review The Bikeriders (2023) 79% 72/100 EDIT “ The film features some gorgeous cinematography and great character work by Jodie Comer. But it isn’t sticky and lacks a grounded emotionality that the film, or at least Jodie’s character Kathy, yearns for.” – Drink in the Movies Jun 23, 2024 Full Review The Fall Guy (2024) 82% 48/100 EDIT “The Fall Guy has a few stunt sequences that are fun and a wonderful stunt dog performance in the character of Jean Claude, but it fails to capitalize on any of its parts. The stunt bloopers at the end...are more charming than the previous two hours.” – Drink in the Movies May 27, 2024 Full Review Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) 90% 55/100 EDIT “Despite its issues, Miller’s passion shines through. Watching the old master try painting with a different brush on his Wasteland canvas is intriguing, even when it’s an eyesore.” – Drink in the Movies May 25, 2024 Full Review The Beast (2023) 86% 84/100 EDIT “Bonello’s film is slow, it purposefully simmers, and as it does the cinematography masterfully utilizes repetition...The Beast isn’t just smart, it’s deftly crafted and lingers long after the credits end.” – Drink in the Movies May 5, 2024 Full Review Poor Things (2023) 92% 60/100 EDIT “In the effort of building out a believable world just askew of ours, Yorgos loses grip on the character study he’d started and ultimately settles for vibrant mediocrity, in an eye-catching and largely engrossing world.” – Drink in the Movies Mar 4, 2024 Full Review Dune: Part Two (2024) 92% 50/100 EDIT “When the film centers on real locations and real structures and props Greig Fraser’s cinematography and Villeneuve’s vision come through clearly. Unfortunately, the film is heavily reliant on visual effects that often look poor at best.” – Drink in the Movies Mar 4, 2024 Full Review Targets (1968) 89% 78/100 EDIT “Targets still feels experimental and fresh today, the strictures in place on Bogdanovich with the lean budget and limited shooting days with Boris Karloff resulted in a film that if it were released today would feel exciting and new” – Drink in the Movies Nov 19, 2023 Full Review Sick of Myself (2022) 88% 80/100 EDIT “Among the most engaging films with highly disagreeable characters throughout its runtime, Borgli uses Signe to illustrate narcissism in a compelling way that brings the other s----y side characters to life in ways that Östlund's films can only dream of ” – Drink in the Movies Nov 19, 2023 Full Review
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