"That's history right there."

DAMN FUCKIN RIGHT IT IS

If Good Time was the inescapable poverty-ridden downward spiral then Uncut Gems is the self-inflicted mortal coil. One that entraps family until they not only have the common sense to disregard blood-ties and leave the burden aside to the sole cause, but also increase it to avoid any association.

A bumblingly revelatory Adam Sandler grounds Howard Ratner’s scathingly comic full-throttle lust of addiction. Convincingly portraying an inability to secure the substantial…

"I really do have love to give, I just don't know where to put it."

One of those films that I just cannot fathom the existence of yet I couldn't be more grateful that it was created. It's such a swirling ball of pure catharsis, one which is so unrestrained in all of its facets of expressing the human experience that it shouldn't work...but it does. It absolutely does. The only thing that surpasses Paul Thomas Anderson's unmatched direction of…

Crazy how I tend to feel quite distracted during films most of the time, but then I can just return to Paul Thomas Anderson's filmography and all I can focus on are the films. This is gonna be a good week, he really is just one of those filmmakers who makes use of the medium to its fullest capabilities.

As a whole Boogie Nights is glorious, but that final hour really cements it as one of the best films of…

[This review isn't great, but I like to think of it as a time capsule of my feelings back then]

"Gentlemen of the court, there are times that I'm ashamed to be a member of the human race and this is one such occasion."

As soon as this film ended and as soon as I wiped away the tears, I sat there astonished. There are not many films that are able to do that but Paths of Glory absolutely did.…