This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Matt Singer’s review published on Letterboxd:
This review may contain spoilers.
“Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It’s about the big picture.”
This movie gets the details and the big picture right. And the dialogue is so wonderful, from the resonant power of the scene with Orson Welles about artistic independence (“Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else’s dreams?”) to Bill Murray eagerly anticipating his upcoming sex change ("Goodbye penis!"). ED WOOD is an absurdly rose-colored view of the real Ed Wood at times; it ends with him in "triumph" at the exact second before Wood's life began an irreversible slide into alcoholism, destitution, and death. But it's also a genuinely affectionate tribute to this guy who stuck to his guns, loved the movies, and was, in a lot of ways, years ahead of his time.