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Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Apparently I enjoy being both charmed and completely devastated because this movie dragged me between those two feelings and I still came away loving it.
I'm always a fan of movies about movie-nerds and I'm always down for a good, quirky dramedy so this checked a lot of boxes for me. Every performance in this movie felt affecting and interesting in different ways. The humor worked quite well and the drama hit hard. I also really appreciated the directing; a…
Weird as hell and way spookier than expected (in a good way!). David Lynch decides to tackle the neo-noir here, but in his distinctly Lynch-style, meaning it's of course laced with nightmare fuel, existential dread and dreamlike logic. Robert Loggia was an unexpected delight, but this is definitely a Patricia Arquette movie. She stole every scene she was in.
Enemy is a trippy mind-bender of a movie that pits Jake Gyllenhaal against Jake Gyllenhaal against Spiders. I was continually enthralled throughout it’s entirety and yet I couldn’t really say that I fully understood it by the time the credits rolled. It’s only after reading some film analysis articles and watching some YouTube videos on the movie that I can really say that I’m starting to get what it might have been trying to say. I’m not quite sold that there’s truly…