I quite like this movie. I don't think it's a great movie, but I quite like it. It's essentially an audio play of phone calls, performed repeatedly and edited down to a final aggregate, presented with footage hazily mixing multi-camera capture of the sole visible actor with the symbol-rich imagery of a long drive on the highway at night. It's an appealingly stripped down, theatrical approach to filmmaking.

While this is a story about a man sacrificing everything to do…

I put little stock in what I see, sir, and none at all in what people say.

The movement of objects as headstalls, keys, and pistols change hands; the involvement of the townsfolk and their sense of shared history; the weight of dust and rot and time; the patience with which the film reveals the truth; and the image of an aged, pacifist gunslinger putting on his glasses before a reluctant duel.

A poignant, focused tragedy interrogating masculinity, machismo, and…

An improvement over 2017's theatrical release, but just being coherent isn't enough to make it good.

Snyder's approach to filmmaking is at its best when his subject is of mythic proportions, which is why I appreciate his work with Superman the most. Not that this is saying much, but Man of Steel is the best movie in the DCEU so far (Wonder Woman would be better, but it undermines itself to devastating effect in the final act), and Batman v…