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“critical consensus” is an insidious phrase
top 4 are favorite first-time watches from 2024
Lesser Bong sure, but he basically made a good, less grating, more ideologically coherent, though still overlong Gilliam movie. Pattinson great, Ackie fun as well — the pair definitely make the hour post-multiples-discovery an easier time than it should be on paper.
I’m not even joking when I say that the Bob Beamon tape measure scene affected me more than any other moment from a movie in months
The Sennott/Hearon/Jalees trio makes this movie more watchable, but this legitimately might have the worst screenplay I’ve come across in a year or more. The movie may pride itself on not being a straight line — being against the oversimple ideal suggested by the self-help book Sennott leafs through — but the movie doesn’t reward the viewer for going along with its capriciousness-of-the-afflicted-mind structure. It may still be personally brave to express the crippling effects of trauma, however we’ve long…