Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Going into this movie, I was genuinely so curious as to how they were going to make this premise last longer than 30 minutes. The film surprises and slowly draws into this incredible puzzle. Right when you think you’ve escaped one room, a second more difficult room emerges. At the center of it Josh Hartnet’s Butcher is so devilishly fascinating to watch as he switches between family man to mad man. Perhaps the most fascinating thing, unfortunately, is seeing how…
When you tell a kid a story, there may be a natural desire to gloss over the "hairy" parts; the farm you send your dog to when it gets too old, exists for a reason, after all. Despite all these efforts, through curiosity or clumsiness, experimentation or exclamation, kids discover the world all the same. It's through this exploration that they become the people they are. Poor Things is one such story.
We follow Emma Stone's incredible performance as Bella…
What is greed besides desire with no bounds. Saltburn is a dark comedy marinated in YA drama and wealth inequality, coated and seared with strong performances across the board. Linus Sandgreen’s cinematography feels like best dream of every 2016 polaroid purchaser.
The film occasionally vears a little self serious but it’s surprising humor balanced the scales.
The story steers between revenge, romance, and thriller with surprising ease and it’s largely due to Barry Keoghan, Rosamund Pike, Jacob Elordi, Allison Oliver, and Richard E Grant’s performances that elevate dialogue that could have easily felt, corny, in the hands of a lesser performance.
Fluctuating between moments of family unity and downright stale adventure, Blue Beetle is generic with very few moments of warmth - far too little to make the entire film worth rewatch and arguably barely worth the first watch.