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Good Time 2017
The Safdie brothers make it look so easy and that alone is something at which to marvel. Purposeful in its chaotic composure. Big swings. Confident and declarative and prudently contained, in a narrative sense. Interesting and unexpected choices at nearly every turn. True to itself and its world, never sensational for its own sake, offering us an organically wild ride. It squares. It’s a vision, a perspective, a vibe, and it’s fascinating as hell. Nothing is by accident here. The…
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The Court Jester 2024
About 20 years ago I PA’d on a reality show that was shooting at Pauly Shore’s house above The Comedy Store. We talked for a while and exchanged numbers. Cut to a couple years later, his name shows up on my caller ID. I’m on the other line with a friend, “Hey, uh, Pauly Shore’s calling me…?”
I answer and he asks if I’m an editor. A mutual friend told him I was, apparently, for some reason, and at that…
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Licorice Pizza 2021
Enchanting and so pure of heart. And I could stop right there.
But… at the same time… I feel like I just watched four or five movies; and despite that… I also found it underwritten. It has so many notions and tangential ideas it wants to include and tell us about, often to no end… but still… it’s aim is so true, and sometimes even magical, much to the credit of Alana Haim, and it’s aesthetics. That said, as a…