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Past Lives 2023
There are times in our lives where we meet someone for the first time but it feels as though we've already known each other for ages, and even if we don't see each other for a long time, once we're together again it's like no time has passed. Sometimes these relationships are friendships, other times they're lovers. In this way the film has been rightly compared to the Before series but I feel like that's where the comparisons should end.…
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Sexy Beast 2000
The way this movie opens scratches the same part of my brain that the Ancient Reptilian Brain voice from Disco Elysium does. Anyways this movie is a ton of fun.
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A Fistful of Dollars 1964
I'm not always the biggest fan of Westerns for whatever reason but when Clint Eastwood materializes behind a cloud of dust, a harbinger of vengeance, it's so striking it's hard not to be won over.
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Mississippi Mermaid 1969
Kinda reminds me of Gone Girl and Phantom Thread in a good way. All these movies tackle a very strange, yet unbreakable, form of love.
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American Fiction 2023
It’s understandable why this won the people’s choice award because it’s so crowd pleasing but I think that’s a mark of its failure. The film satirizes the publishing industry and its tokenization of black authors into what it deems to be “black” stories and rightfully so, but there’s a crucial party here that remains unscathed: the audience. The audience of readers and the audience of filmgoers who feel it’s necessary to read marginalized voices to “empathize better.” But why should…