Nope? More like Hell Yeah!
This movie is a great example of the saying “The devil is in the details.” This is a nuanced, high concept and very unique sci-fi western horror-comedy that juggles numerous elements, but never lets a ball drop. The craftsmanship Peele displays as a director with his third feature most impressed me, with many background details and some incredibly impressive sound work helping push me past any part I found confusing or hard to understand. This will…
It’s not often something can be classified as essential viewing, but if there ever was something to do it, it would be this movie.
Part of my upcoming video on RuPaul’s filmography
Supremely fucked up, psychologically profound and disturbing, while also being an absolutely enthralling detective mystery, Prisoners is perhaps the best instance I’ve ever seen of a filmmaker trusting the audience to make their own decisions on the morality of character’s actions. Keller, Alex, and even Loki are all monsters, even if the film won’t tell you that they are. The cinematography is stunning (shoutout Deakins), and Hugh Jackman, Paul Dani, and Jake Gyllenhall deserved more awards attention than they received for…
The Safdie Brothers are masters of chaos, and that’s on full display with Uncut Gems, a frenetic, claustrophobic and atypical character study that serves as a cautionary tale on greed, and a sleazy and skuzzy deep-dive into how people think they become invincible when given power. The brothers’s work may not seem too showey at first, (much of their visual style can be described as “close ups of guys screaming at each other”) but their way of telling stories sticks…
