I don’t know how to rate shit like this man. An obscenely myopic dive into a certain form of male-aise. Withholding and defiant of literalization or narrative comforts. Lynch already had an astounding vision and visual sense here, a control of texture both physical and tonal that has to impress. All these years later, I got shades of Aronofsky (Pi) and Glazer (Under the Skin) who I presume had to be influenced by Lynch/this specifically on some level. Also, for…
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Companion 2025
Every Yellowjacket is a fantastic actor and has had the chance to prove it on that show, a favorite of mine. But Sophie Thatcher stands out as someone special even among that talented crowd. I just wish she’d start getting cast in movies whose quality matched hers. Like Barbarian, this movie incorporates twists and surprises and cuts away from the primary story structure to peel back a new layer, but in the case of Companion, perhaps I should say “twists”…
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 2024
A very different movie than Fury Road, which is good because it doesn’t compare as a no-brakes action pic. Has its own pace and agenda that mostly worked for me, even if there was a little bit of drag (though that might have just been some friction from the dude I have chained to the back of my car dragging in the sand). I have loved watching Anya Taylor-Joy for almost a decade now and am ready for her to take over the world.
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The Substance 2024
My glib, shitty review that I don’t really mean would be “damn, I wish The Substance had any.” But that would be unfair. This movie isn’t devoid of ideas. It’s just that it has exactly one idea that it takes two hours and twenty minutes to explore. The Substance would have been better and tighter as an episode of The Twilight Zone. Certain beats become inevitable at a certain point and you just sit there waiting for the movie to…
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