Adjusted for inflation, this film had a budget of roughly $145,000,000 — and you can see every cent of it up there on that screen. A massive, hilarious blockbuster about the fundamental absurdity of the American-capitalist war machine and the way it fundamentally erodes our relationships with each other and alienates the practitioners of evil (Milo) from ever having to reckon with their evil deeds by giving them systemic distance (allowing them to rationalize their cruelty by blaming it on “market…
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Men in Black II 2002
Liked this enough as a kid but this is barely a movie. Feels like a first draft. So close, yet so far. Rosario Dawson is too good for this. Cackled at “I wanna have your baby,” though, so that was nice. We need to bring back Will Smith credits raps. This review is basically a cry for help
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La La Land 2016
Chazelle. Gosling. Stone. Just one teensy-tinsy narrative sour note. And one hell of an ending.
Y'all have no idea how hard your world is about to get rocked.
EDIT 12/2/16: Okay. Guess y'all have a pretty good idea.
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The Opposite of Sex 1998
A should-be-classic example of postmodern storytelling, this mature, raucous I-don't-know-what-the-fuck-genre-this-is picture revels in its intelligence, led by a near-perfect screenplay from writer-director Don Roos (nominated for the WGA award--Oscar ignored it for reasons that are probably stupid) and ace performances from Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan and, most of all, Lisa Kudrow, showing off a surprising range as a character so common in everyday life often relegated to one line in the movies. This film is real, funny, unpredictable, entertaining and…