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I Love You, Man 2009
A stone-cold classic from my late adolescence which remains a perfect comedy. Sunny and sweet, but still crass and full of great gags and bit players, with a killer soundtrack and Rudd and Segel at their career-best.
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Here 2024
One of the crudest screenplays ever shot. GTFO levels of expository dialogue; schizophrenic pacing; a halfway intriguing thesis (that human relationships are the same across time) wrecked by the incredulous inclusion of historical figures like Benjamin Franklin and the inventor of the La-Z-Boy (kinda funny, but c'mon). This is saying nothing of the gimmick, which filled me with anxiety, and the uncanny valley de-aging that put me at an irretrievable distance from any kind of emotional investment.
It's open season…
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Challengers 2024
The first time I saw this was in a theater in April 2024. I'd just taken an edible after eating a huge amount of Thai food. The edible got me insanely high and also triggered my GERD (or maybe that was the Thai food) so I spent the entirety of the film in extreme discomfort. This is a bad movie to experience when you're as fucked up as I was; the non-linear narrative, the propulsive Reznor/Ross score, all the wild…
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The Damned 2024
At the Q&A for my showing of The Damned at TIFF, an audience member asked Roberto Minervini about his writing process. Minervini said he ostensibly doesn't have one, that he doesn't really ever, and actually that this entry in his filmography marks the least involved he's been with writing in the traditional sense to date. Let me just say, it shows (derogatory).
The Damned makes its own lean runtime feel like a slog, and that's not because of its deliberately…
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