Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Only on rare occasions will I walk out of a cinema without notes about at least the slightest imperfections of a film. It's appropriate that one of those occasions is after a film about the pressures of the beauty industry.
Standard horror directors can occasionally tie themselves in knots trying to create a believable premise to keep their films driving smoothly over plotholes, occasionally dipping into science fiction to do so. Coralie Fargeat doesn't need to worry about this -…
Making a bad film is easy. Making the worst film of the year is the only remarkable achievement Megalopolis pulls off.
I don't like blaming members of the crew for screwing up in their respective departments. Luckily, I don't have to do that here, because every aspect of every department fails so spectacularly that it can't be the fault of the individual crew members. This can only be the fault of the director.
The costumes lack any sense of subtlety,…
"The Bikeriders" - what a bland name for this exploration of masculinity. Yes, it's the same title as the book it adapted, but surely another title would attract audiences in larger numbers? Perhaps "Vandals" would be a better title for marketing purposes?
In retrospect, the title serves a purpose beyond marketing. Our tale begins with one man, and then a group of men, who want to ride motorbikes. Nothing malicious to it, they have a common special interest and they…