I love a filmmaker with the cojones of steel to put an intermission into his film in this day and age.
The Brutalist was absolutely stunning and I could barely take my eyes off of it throughout its gargantuan runtime. Its themes of immigrant intolerance and capitalist dominance seem to have emerged at a poignant inflection point where these movements are at their most prevalent in decades, and they are so deeply woven into this narrative through fascinating characters whose…
Sony’s mosaic of faux Spider-Man villains movies finally bellyflops to our screens for the final time. Every problem in Kraven pretty much applies to every one of these Sony-verse movies — which I will crap on in great detail further down. This systematic catastrophe legitimately deserves a Masters thesis essay.
Specifics on Kraven: It’s totally incoherent (surprise). They somehow made a rhino worse than Paul Giamatti’s, and the other villains have nothing to do. Action scenes progressively worsen until the…
During my study abroad term in Denmark years back, the organizers wanted to demonstrate to us their trademark dark Danish humor, and elected to do it through a viewing of the film Klown. Now I’m certain that The Celebration was the film that deserved to be shown instead.
I understand why they opted not to pick this one: it’s more tragic than it is funny, and its blurry guérilla style makes the budget look like it flatlined around 40k Danish kroner…
Greatly appreciated a lot of this despite a near total absence of advertised horror elements. The family drama has enough wrinkles and is grounded enough in reality to carry the story, the omniscient perspective works and it is extremely tight and efficient with the runtime.
It’s mostly the third act that takes it down a few pegs where certain subplots are dropped for no reason, some of the acting really goes off the rails and the ending — while emotionally…
The Academy: We're focusing on expanding diversity and representation at the Oscars this year!
Also The Academy: Hey, there's this emotionally rich Japanese film that we could give a Best Animated Feature nomination to, but let's just go ahead and nominate The Boss Baby instead.
The fuck....?
Bahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Letterboxd, you are incredible. You somehow managed to rangle up countless spectacular ratings, shot this right up the top 250 list, and suckered me and a bunch of other users into spending 7 whole hours watching a bunch of Hungarian villagers stare at people, walk slowly, get drunk, quietly plot, torture a cat and very little else.
There are a collection of gripping scenes in the film, but for every one that compels you to invest your attention there…
