Absolutely one of my favorite films. I watch it every year and have no plans of stopping. There’s so much to unpack here, I feel like every time I watch this I’m taken aback by something new. This time around I was specifically engaged by the arbitrarily and utterly toxic power dynamic of climbing the corporate ladder, and how it impacts the sheer loneliness this film exudes. It’s one of the more isolated films I’ve seen, but it’s easy to…

My screening of the film was scheduled for 9:00. I arrived a bit late, as I always do, to avoid the 25-30 minute time frame made up of countless ads and cacophonous trailers; I could do without it. Alas, when I arrived at 9:17, the image hadn’t started and the crowd was fucking pissed. They finally started screening at 9:45, and then made us watch the ads - some of them repeatedly. If you’re gonna charge me a convenience fee,…

Upsetting. It's been a long time since I've watched something so anti-humanist, so existentially cruel and bleak. What is disguised as a philosophical exchange of moralities is really a grotesque exposition of two of the most shallow people putting down each other's place in the universe, and, by extension, art.

The film itself spends half its runtime excusing its existence. The director, Sam Levinson, a white person, has to excuse the inevitable politicization of having 2 black leads as well…