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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011
The epitomical aesthetically entrancing film that's smarter than you and on which you might have to consult Wikipedia to be sure you're fully following. A who's who of our greatest Brits and Irishmen, led by Oldman, make a feast of the drab Cold War backdrop and reawaken in the lapsed cinema consumer that holy forgone feeling of "Dudes rock" — while also suggesting that said dudes are not OK. If only our intelligence community were this stylish!
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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 enough to mark the peak of the Apatow era. It's full of great gags and bit players (Favreau, Huebel, Lennon, Lo Truglio), with a killer soundtrack (gotta call out "The Underdog," "Waterslide," "Campus," plus all the Rush), and Rudd and Segel at their career-best. My friends and I still call each other "Jobin."
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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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