okay so you sit down in the theater and from the jump it’s off to a great start. you have arguably the generation’s greatest movie star giving another exceptional and strange performance, engaging with a fun and compelling concept. and for those first 30 minutes, it’s funny, bleak, gripping - everything you’re looking for in a popcorn movie in 2025. and you can’t wait to watch this compelling character engage in variations of this compelling concept for the next two…
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The Substance 2024
eh.
first off, there is no universe where this needs to be nearly two and a half hours long. good god, that is absurd. however, i am convinced there is a pretty killer 80 minute film buried in there somewhere.
there is really nothing worse than a film that simultaneously thinks it’s oh so smart but treats its audience like idiots. it is in no way a complicated film, yet is constantly hand-holding you with mini callbacks to make sure…
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AGGRO DR1FT 2023
my man is perpetually decades ahead of the knife. the full-throated embrace of stupidity/incoherence is anything but a mistake, and detractors treating it as a bug not feature betray an unwillingness to engage with the work on its own terms. if you were to weld aggro dr1ft’s aesthetic language to something like a “good story”, something would go missing - namely, the dr1ft. here, narrative conventions have been leveled into bare, utterly stupid forms in complete service to the image…
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