The movie has some highlights, but it's really let down by it's protagonist being underbaked and a very odd ending that I personally felt undermined the most interesting relationship in the film. The film sets itself up as some kind of commentary on sex work and class, but the film's choice of using russian oligarchs make this ring a little hollow for me - it's hardly brave to make a film in America about rich Russians being awful and I…
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A Complete Unknown 2024
I didn't want to like this movie, pete seeger is very dear to me and I didn't trust this movie to adapt him well. It seems weird to me that they've completely written the Vietnam war out of dylan's decision to leave activism behind but the actors are so charming and the direction so good that it won me over despite all that. The music choices were generally excellent and the editing was very subtle but in my opinion really…
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019
Genuinely the worst star wars movie ever made, a disgustingly cowardly movie that desperately panders to the worst most entitled ass-clowns and finally completes star wars' transition from an anti fascist allegory for the Vietnam war into a story about all the special bloodlines and how the special people will determine everyone else's fate. This is far worse than any of the prequels, at least those movies had at least 1 really interesting and cool scene in each one but…
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Monos 2019
Imagine if Joker and Apocalypse Now had a baby. If that sounds good to you then you'll love this film but I found it incredibly cynical, grimy, sloppily edited and oversaturated. It's a film about people losing their capability to empathize with one another and it's a mean-spirited ugly journey and I hated every second of it. The only time I could enjoy this film was when the admittedly stellar soundtrack was playing, but other than that it's a vaguely…
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