Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
I don't have the words. No flaw in this movie matters in contrast to the feeling it has managed to capture and represent and echo back to me.
I have seen dark comedies and this isn't one. Strings of puerile edgelord attempts at humor in a bath of incoherent haha-so-random nonsense. There's a really interesting movie hiding somewhere in the script, but instead all these talented people spent so much energy on low effort "jokes" about dwarfism, race, and sexuality, with no deeper wit than the repeated "lol Americans". The better parts of the writing might have earned an extra half star if I hadn't first tried to…
I didn't get this film.
After I watched it, I had no idea why it was given Best Picture or Best Screenplay. Only after I read DirkH's review did I get any sense of appreciation for what this was all about. But all the understanding in the world doesn't change that this thing made no sense to me when I saw it.