Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
When you remove the celebration of a beloved and time-tested character like Spider-Man from a movie like “Into the Spider-verse”, what you’re left with is the calculated and milquetoast corporate aesthetic that defines the Mitchells vs. The Machines.
Dazed and Confused plays like a reclamation of the teenage narrative, one that throws out the archetypical "cool kid" that starred in every 80s high school movie. The Ferris Buellers, the Marty McFlys, and the Bills and Teds, characters who we're TOLD may be social outcasts, but who would undoubtedly be found at the "cool kids table" in any real-world high school. Here is a movie where the teenage experience, the ravenous, all-consuming whirlpool of hormones and poor self-image, is…