In the opening scene of the film, Brady Corbet plays his ace and delivers the shot of the decade. The movie opens on the dark, cramped interior of Laszlo’s boat ride to America. Subtitles flash across the screen as the music pounds against your head, building an intense sense of inescapable claustrophobia. Right when the feeling becomes unbearable though, everything opens up. The shot pans to the sky, where sunlight streams in as the score resolves in the booming sound…
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Shiva Baby 2020
This is uncut gems but for depressed college kids. 70 minutes of feeling like I’m having a heart attack. Incredible in its ability to genuinely border on being a true horror movie.
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Cats 2019
This is one of the worst movies I’ve ever watched. Sadly, the CGI monstrosity cats are not even the worst part. Every. Fucking. Song. Is the same thing. Every single one is “I’m X cat and I think X.” Jesus Christ above please stop. I am fucking begging. It’s every song and all they do is songs. I need it to end. It’s awful.
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Megalopolis 2024
There’s a famous phrase in musicals: “when you can’t talk anymore, sing; when you can’t sing, dance”. Megalopolis boldly asks: “what if there was a secret fourth thing? A fifth? A tenth?” How far does a movie go into madness and still remain a movie? It’s a question far more interesting than Megalopolis actually is.
In truth it’s difficult to review this movie, if not impossible. Megalopolis is entirely singular, it’s absolutely one of one. That in itself is valuable,…
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