The mere existence of the core footage in this doc makes it notable. Nothing surprising formally here, either - just this form fully ripened. We've seen a lot of these stories on cable, but this one manages to convey the intensity of this kind of experience in a way that validates the participants rather than just extacting more content to fill the time between commercial breaks. On the other hand, the last few minutes of staged feelgood are a deflating overreach. It's a 3.5 movie with an astounding 10-minute middle section.
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The Electric State 2025
I suppose that looks like $300M worth of CGI ... it looks good. But not a single new idea or approach here. The opening expository scene was fun.
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Trap 2024
As the saying goes, a broken clock is right twice a day. By the hour that's 2/24 or 8.33% of the time. More accurately by the minute, that clock is right 2/1440ths of the time. That's about 0.1388%. About one minute of this movie works in a truly effective way. I rounded up to a half star.
(And when he's not being inexplicably directed to act badly, Hartnett is a really fine actor.)
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Psycho 1960
New to this viewing, on a bigger screen than usual: really getting that Marion’s big mistake was triggering Norman - not by stumbling into the suggestion that his mother be institutionalized, but by inviting him into her room. The sexual undercurrents of the movie, that space behind her door, for example, were a thing I’ve always understood intellectually, but never felt.
Also, Martin Balsam is phenomenal in this movie. His entrance, in full extreme close up, is really something. He…
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