25 // they/he
I’ve no idea what I am talking about
world’s longest cold open
didn’t particularly vibe with the narration (especially in said cold open) and some scenes had… interesting choices regarding length and acting, but nothing could really make me hate a story like this. and those cute lil babby creepers 💚
it’s so obviously on the nose but I don’t particularly mind that, and the humour did largely hit for me (I enjoyed the physical gag of Mickey being printed and going back in and out of the…
Pamela Anderson you deserve better
Not the film to see after having eye surgery, thought my vision was fading away but it was just an out of focus camera for 90 minutes
Speaking of 90 minutes, how can you fit that many montages into a film that short
What I felt could’ve been such a good story wasted with a script that really just doesn’t say or do anything. I really did care about the characters though and that’s most likely down to the great performances from everyone, which in turn has made me even more disappointed in the writing and direction. Run it back!
Stood up and clapped throughout the credits, my family are begging me to sit down and stop making so much noise but this is my Cannes Film Festival
numbing and enraging in equal measure, eternally bleak yet with a nugget of hope at its core somehow
Been seeing a lot of comparisons with this and The Zone of Interest, I actually think they take completely opposite tacks to their subjects. Where TZoI allows you to be a fly-on-the-wall to the atrocities of Auschwitz, just as close but still with a degree of separation from them, Nickel Boys forces you to live, endure them with its first-person POV, with no escape, no…