67/100

”You're only as healthy as you feel.”

Everyone is more than likely to revoke my “film card” or whatever for not being absolutely in love with this and claiming it as one of the best films of all-time, but honestly I’ve never felt this way. Watched this for the first time way back when I was first diving deeper into exploring more than the surface level films I had seen and I couldn’t grasp onto anything; I thought that…

44/100

There is just so many plot points and different things that are going on throughout the entirety of the film, that the overarching story gets lost multiple times and it’s so hard to actually find something to grasp onto. If you start to be interested in this one part, it just goes away and becomes nothing. I don’t think a huge amount of information/lore is necessary bad, but when a lot of it feels useless and the runtime is…

100

"Why don't we just... wait here for a little while... see what happens?"

It's funny how much the film itself is like its opening title card; comes straight to you out of nowhere in a dark blue aesthetic feel that gets you hella pumped for the best 109 minutes of practical effects you'll ever see.

Bone-chilling, white-knuckled fists, a crackle of the fire heard from a distance; John Carpenter's The Thing isn't just a film you watch, it's a…

99/100

"I guess I'll see you in the movies."

At the mere age of 31, and with just two feature films under his belt, Damien Chazelle has become one of the most daring and passionate filmmakers working today. His first outing, the brutal and intense Whiplash, introduced us to Chazelle with big eyes and having us look out for anything his name is attached to. Now, two years later, he returns to the directors chair to bring us an ode…