A gargantuan, soaring, spectacular and singular first half that is undermined brick by brick by an unfocused and melodramatic final act. Just a puzzling series of choices. A shockingly meek effort to capitalize on idea and execution. Ultimately a disappointing film that is spectacular to look at and listen to.
Favorite films
Recent activity
AllRecent reviews
More-
-
Dahomey 2024
“Museums are a Western institution.”
I am wrestling with the inkling high school senior Cole would give this five stars.
Provocative. Challenging. Ultimately narratively hollow. Pressed to recall a film less interested in hand holding. If you engage with this earnestly and academically, it is rewarding.
Translated from by
Popular reviews
More-
TÁR 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Probably the worst film I’ve ever seen to play host to an Oscar-worthy performance. I knew this dumb freakin app would love a movie like this. There are like four scenes in this entire movie.
Translated from by -
Civil War 2024
The Last Of Us with a journalism degree.
Vacuous, self-important and relentlessly obvious. Alex Garland has lost the plot.
A girl in a car looks down. A passenger tells her to pay attention: “You’re not gonna want to miss this.” Cut to an extreme wide shot of the highway, littered with abandoned, burned out cars. Innovative!
I walked out after the fourth time a defenseless person is shot to death at point blank range.
Dreadful.
Translated from by
