there's kinda more wrong with this than I thought there would be — it's about 10 to 20 minutes too long, and the movie never really shakes this paternalistic "girl power!" perspective that starts to feel really gross by the end. but like.... oh my god I left stunned. ani is one of my new favorite characters in anything, and I somehow feel so seen by her portrayal despite being basically nothing like her.
I think that women in other…
too simple of a male fantasy to really speak truth to the idea of growing out of adolescence, but oh my god, there are some individual moments in this that are just . . . perfectly beautiful. I've never seen anything that so perfectly captures the sensation of lingering lazily on the border between childhood and adulthood, excited by what you could be yet in no rush to change.
played w some interesting ideas but what can save a horror comedy that's not scary or funny? that being said it was pretty cool that his dad was named peter and his mom was named lois
