Recommended by vergilex in the Metropolis roulette

Right after watching this I was prepared to call this my least favorite film of all time. After letting it sit for a couple of days, and reading other people's thoughts on the film, I can at least somewhat understand why it's held in pretty high regard. I'm particularly struck by this line from Roger Ebert's review: "To know the future would not be a blessing but a curse. Life would be unlivable…

The protagonist in every Lynne Ramsay film is a ghost, a person who has been affected and broken by past trauma in a way that renders them at a distant remove from everything happening around them. This is no different in You Were Never Really Here, a story about a hired gun named Joe who is assigned a task of rescuing a girl from a sex trafficking ring. There's a worry that this may feel like overly worn and familiar…

That moment when you realize that Halliday probably had a letterboxd account.

Merely 3 months after the faux-liberalism bullshit of The Post, Steven Spielberg releases what Jake Cole succinctly termed "an incel epic", and subsequently the worst film he's ever made. An absolute abomination from start to finish. I'm absolutely baffled by Spielberg's inclination to adapt the source material for this, which according to those who have read the book, is somehow even worse. I'm also equally baffled that this…