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Scenes from a Marriage 1973
The world’s most misanthropic man provides his most thorough, comprehensive take on marriage (and subsequent divorce) – Bergman, coming from no shortage of experience on the subject, wrote Scenes from a Marriage while engaged to his sixth wife (and with his six hundredth mistress, man was a ho) and is unsurprisingly critical of marriage as a default social expectation across practically all of human culture. There are few greater demonstrations of art’s exorcistic powers than Bergman’s miniseries ventures, Scenes from…
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 2024
Furiosa is the hero for our generation -- robbed of paradise, forced to roam a rotting wasteland of dust and garbage, bottling up her righteous indignation towards the men who killed the world but remaining productive, complacent nonetheless. We see Furiosa's quieted rage develop into the heroic, collectivist compassion of Fury Road as she faces against Hemsworth's Dementus, who represents everything cruel and wrong with the Wasteland's (and pop-culture's increasingly domineering) anarcho-nihilist ideology-- which Miller shows no…
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Revenge 2017
frequently mistakes decompression for patience/discipline, even at 108 minutes this thing is just stretched wildly thin for what it actually has to offer stylistically, thematically, dramatically… but, as I said with The Substance, I do appreciate Fargeat’s efforts to eschew dialogue in favor of vibrant, textured visual storytelling + any movie that ends with a Michael Mann home invasion sequence is admittedly gonna move me at least a little bit. But overall.. kinda insubstantial ! (that one is going haunt Fargeat filmcrit for all of eternity i’m sorry)
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The Hill 1965
Kind of the perfect scenario to showcase Lumet’s particular fusion of theatre’s constrained intimacy and cinema’s potential for scenic expanse ; the film’s central setpiece — The Hill, if you can believe it — acts both as a stage for interpersonal friction, and as a center of gravity for the camera to orbit around, revealing the mechanics of the larger military-industrial setting. A powerful observation of the cruel and exceedingly pointless rituals of colonial authority, which exist only to project…
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Mickey 17 2025
Probably Bong’s overall silliest movie since Barking Dogs; Pattinson citing Jackass, Ren & Stimpy, and Fargo Steve Buscemi as influences is a pretty good indicator of what tone you’re getting in this one. A cutthroat and abrasively unsubtle commentary of America’s crumbling empire and the degrading bodily autonomy of its laboring class. Mostly pretty perfect control of plotting/intensity — as one would hope from the guy who made Parasite — falling down a constant spiral of humiliating physical gags, up until the end…
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Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire 2024
If you can overcome the Marvel humor and clunky techno babble (AKA, if u are a true ride or die kaiju head) these movies are some of the most audaciously crafted American blockbusters ever, nobody is flexing their obscene CGI budgets on pulpy crayon-vomiting visuals, borderline silent film storytelling (half this movie is Kong stoically wandering the plains of Hollow Earth learning the ways of fatherhood through his troubled foster son) and ridiculous live-action shonen fights / environmental destruction like these…
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