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MY RATING SCALE **VERY IMPORTANT**:
✮✮✮✮✮ - 5 stars
✮✮✮✮½ - 4.5 stars
✮✮✮✮ - 4 stars
✮✮✮½ - 3.5 stars
✮✮✮ - 3 st
like, aside from all the recent disk horse, my main issue with this movie is the story could’ve been so much better. elf and legally blonde come to mind. like, the only thing i remember about ariana greenblatt’s character in this is her invoking margot’s fascism joke. compare her to the little brother character in elf, who starts out similarly - stoic, cynical, too cool for school, but who lets buddy’s influence bring out his inner child by the story’s…
Almost couldn’t see the stunning visuals through that lovely thick fog of sexism!
Since Joi is a secondary character with a considerable amount of screentime I thought for sure she would uhhh serve some semblance of importance to the plot. But nah they just wanted to slap their Her (2013) wish-fulfillment fanfic right in the middle of this. Ya’ll forgot to mention the A.I. are slaves too in this universe!!
I don’t know if you had quite enough naked women…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
beautifully shot, especially for black and white. there’s quite a lot of familiar beats but they’re played out with such charm that you forgive them. the film does well to capture a certain timelessness about the teenage condition. the detail and arc of iris’ incontinence breathes life and authenticity in her character, distinguishing her as more than just a “not-like-other-girls” girl. LOVE LOVE LOVE the representation with Maggie (a gay who can drive AND throw? i’m in love) and with…