One of the good ones.
Favorite films
Recent activity
AllRecent reviews
More-
The Killer 2023
The rare example of direction that doesn’t make it very clear what’s going on, and also doesn’t make me care to find out. A movie as uninteresting as its title and its poster of a dude pointing a a gun.
-
May December 2023
The hottest nebulizer machine scene ever put to film.
Between this and TÁR, the Todds are really pampering us enjoyers of Thoughtful Movies for Adults.
Popular reviews
More-
Starship Troopers 1997
It's as good an action/sci-fi movie as has ever been made, and on top of it, it's a subversive, complex, yet highly entertaining examination of the cost of social order. It has held up beautifully over the past 15 years, and in retrospect, it's one of the best movies of the 1990s.
-
Bo Burnham: Inside 2021
Among a sea of hilarious jokes in this movie, here’s what I personally found the funniest: that the whole marvelous collage of creativity, getting its inspiration from the weight of societal turmoil, personal struggle, global crisis—and oh yeah, an ongoing pandemic lockdown—served as a counterweight and a way to process and a thumb in the eye of all that; but more than this, that it was to my soul a cathartic manifesto against the era’s bankrupt superhero movie machinery that…
