“There's more to life than fucked up beginnings.”
A disarming debut, all the more impressive considering how it avoids the gratuity of every narrative pitfall there is to misery porn. A.V. Rockwell shows a lot of tact, in the unspoken ways it weaves the fate of the characters to the ever chaotic New York — without even needing to forcefully confront them with an historical event from late summer 2001, just imagine.
But mostly, this is a story on inevitabilities,…
“I can’t go outside, I can’t go to the kitchen, I can’t dance.”
Michel Franco not being cruel; which isn’t to say this is the breezy romantic drama of the season, but the gentleness he allows his characters, just this one time, doesn’t seem faded for some malignant and misanthrope idea, and that will catch some off-guard (aye). But as a harsh concept glued together by the multitudes of its title, it’s an entire nuanced array of reflexions on the…
Far more bothered with generating iconography than with the plot (Knock Knock remains the untouchable masterpiece of Eli’s); but it’s a campy good time, filled to the brim with stupendously gory and gratuitous deaths, and as far as slashers go… the this could only happen in America factor gives it a baffling ability to invoke the darkest grins from an audience, true schadenfreude, so no, no turkey leftovers on the tray.
Poor Gina Gershon, her bad luck here is the stuff of legend…
“All you need is to want it.”
A plot built around wishing upon, with no material threat... I get why some would regard Wonder Woman 1984 as lazy. On my end, I just find it to be one rare beautiful tentpole, on how innocence can quickly turn into ignorance, and the price one pays for that.
Patty Jenkins really built something here. Ultra-reminiscent of the blockbusters of the era it’s set in, when some dumb idea could become the most massive of…
I’m a rare beast, I say Michael Bay’s an auteur all the time, but that I don’t like his art; and then today that shit came out to bite me.
My boys, what a perfect marriage of every high-octane masterpiece set in LA and the dumbest exaggerations a man in love with explosions could ever come up with. I’m awestruck at the audacity. There’s Speed in there, Heat, T2, it has it all; but then as soon as this thing starts,…
