With the possible exception of Patrick’s attraction to Mindy, literally every element of this movie works and is perfectly calibrated. Not a second is wasted, no idea is drawn out longer than it needs to be. Movies do not get much better than this:
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Honor Society 2022
Not the Angourie Rice vehicle she deserves (it would be nice if there was an actual edge to this film instead of just flashes of one) but she makes it work anyways.
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All That Jazz 1979
I’m going to need to sit with this one for a while and sort out my many feelings but my god, the last ten minutes of this thing captivated me more than anything has in some time.
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Thor: Love and Thunder 2022
Wow this is an odd one. It has stuff I like (Mainly Bale and whatever the fuck Crowe is doing) and I’m drawn to how messy it is to the point that I know I’ll rewatch it at least a few times to try and get my head around it. But, even knowing that there was no way one two-hour movie would give Jane’s story as The Mighty Thor the care and depth that the comics gave it, I was…
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Red Rocket 2021
I struggled a lot with this one for the first half and then suddenly I locked in hard with what this movie was doing and was enthralled for the last hour or so. I think I am going to go back and forth on how much I actually like this one a lot but but Simon Rex sure is giving it his all.