2017 Directed by Cory Finley
Two teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. In the process, they learn that neither is what she seems to be, and that a murder might solve both of their problems.
gotta say this live action adaptation of the barbie horse adventures video games got seriously intense
Forgot to log this one. Watched it on Blu-ray.
Really strong debut. Hope it gets some Spirit and Gotham love. Lyle Vincent is a great DP and this film looks beautiful. Strong performances by Olivia Cooke and Anya Taylor-Joy.
RIP Anton Yelchin
AFI 2017: film #3
would you believe me if i told you that this was the funniest fucking movie i’ve seen all year? i’m in awe. definitely the most sickeningly fun time i’ve had in a theater in such a while. and honestly? it has the potential to be a cult classic. i absolutely adored this. heathers would be proud
If the past few months have taught us anything, it’s that not giving a shit about other human beings is the best way to get ahead in life. Empathy is a weakness. It’s a virtue, of course — and hopefully part of our natural condition — but it’s also a weakness. Empathy is one of the few things that money can’t buy, and the only thing that the rich can’t afford. “Thoroughbred,” Cory Finley’s delightfully vicious and mind-bogglingly confident first feature, is a pitch-black comedy about the danger of being around people of privilege when they first start to figure that out.
God this was so fucking CLEAN and sharp. Loses half a star for not being gay when it so clearly and easily could have been.
no one was ready for this. i was not. i fucking loved it. thank u world for allowing me to see this film *french chef kiss*
I feel like this film was marketed as a black comedy about upper-class disaffection and ennui. But it's more of a character study addressing a specific type of pathology. The film spends more time building the relationship between the two girls than it does on any kind of teenage decadence. Thank God for that!
It's also a surprisingly moral movie, in its way. Ana Taylor-Joy wants to kill her stepdad not because he merely annoys her, but because he's a genuinely repulsive person who's a danger to her and her mother. Not that that excuses what goes down, but I was expecting something like 'War Of The Roses'. The final scene between the two girls is genuinely affecting.
This film is worth watching just for Anton Yelchin, who gives a scene-stealing performance as the kind of self-aggrandizing creep who gets in way over his head, that James Franco has turned into a cliche. What a tragic loss his death was.
So who is going to drug me on a couch and while I’m asleep commit 1st degree murder upstairs?
“She’s basically just flipping to random pages of the DSM-5 and throwing medications at me.”
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