Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
A serious review for once (because I'm sober).
Meh. Some kid is going to want to be a journalist because of this movie. I feel bad for them.
I enjoyed it as a spectacle. But it also walked a fine line to say nothing about so many things that touch a nerve with me, a journalist, today — replacing what would have required nuance with ambiguous states/players, convenient explosions, gratuitous violence or familiar tropes (the alcoholic reporter, the weathered war…
A solid entry in the "money rots your brain" canon. And a powerful reminder that I almost won my one-and-only wrestling match in middle school and have been binging ever since.