Sarah Paulson’s Mt. Rushmore of Delicious Character Parts is far from finished but let’s carve Diane Sherman on it for now — and anyone who tells you why doesn’t love you.
This movie rips, the score rips, let Aneesh Chaganty make anything he likes.
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Roald Dahl's The Witches 2020
100 years from now, the Earth will be ash and Anne Hathaway’s work in The Witches just chewing what’s left of the scenery.
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The Devil All the Time 2020
Is Robert Pattinson’s accent in this film:
1) Foghorn Leghorn
2) Lil’ Boosie
3) Foghorn Leghorn + Lil’ Boosie
4) A fey alien who, in the hopes of blending in, has adopted a West Virginia drawl and is happily, hopelessly blowing it.Cast your vote in the comments.
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Antebellum 2020
I’ve rarely seen a movie more artfully shoot itself in the foot than Antebellum does — repeatedly. It shoots its metaphoric toes; it busts its kneecaps. It bloody stumbles over the finish line only to scream “FUCK” and take a bulldozer to its own being (literally). If Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz’s well-intention movie is meant to end the plantation film once and for all? Good. But to do so, it resurrects it first in fourteen million dollar clothes. I’m…
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Blade: Trinity 2004
One stars is for the vampire pomeranian, who rules and should have had a spin-off. RIP.
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Money Plane 2020
Kelsey Grammar plays the role of Darius Emmanuel The Rumble” Grouch III like he’s a neutered lion on steroids — give him the Razzie, Grammy, and Oscar.
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Extra Ordinary 2019
Solid top to bottom but actually extraordinary when when Will Forte’s on screen. Give me the Christian Winter prequel immediately.
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Lost Girls 2020
Lost Girls wants to anger and frustrate you. That’s a hard sell in already frustrating times, and yet: I didn’t mind spending two plus hours with it. Liz Garbus drama is an anti-police procedural — one which exposes how biases can form the foundations of fact-collecting — and it’s scathing indictment of the “dead girl” drama is worthy and necessary viewing.
Is it entirely successful? No, not so either. Lost Girls
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Underwater 2020
Pity Underwater, friends, for it is fighting a losing battle from the get-go: it’s built from parts that any person over 30’ is like to recognize; it endears us to its actors more than characters. Which means for many people it’s derivative and thinly sketched at best. That’s a valid take on Underwater.
And: there’s is a 10 year old who’s sneaking into Underwater — who barely knows K Stew or Vincnt Cassell or even Alien — who will quickly get bodied by…
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Extreme Job 2019
Seven Thoughts About Extreme Job
1) It’s reductive to compare Extreme Job to Edgar Wright’s Hot Fuzz but, fuck it, let’s get reductive: Extreme Job’s a close cousin of Hot Fuzz.
2) While both Job and Fuzz traffic in meta-aware action tropes, only Job explores the highs of elevated skillsets and the cruelty of prodigiousness. Specifically: if “elevation” is defined as “a dancer's or an athlete's leap and seeming suspension in the air” (it is, I just checked), it’s inferable that the…