Comedies on the big screen! Comedies on the big screen!
I pointed out how many horror trailers there were before this and my friend said she thought they usually matched the genre with the trailer. I thought about it for a second and realized they couldn't... because there are no theatrically released comedies coming out soon. Genuinely sad.
Anyway! This movie is going to be a massive hit at 14 year old slumber parties for years to come. I can…
If last year's Longlegs was Oz Perkins recreating Silence of the Lambs, this movie is him recreating Final Destination. And then combining it with Napoleon Dynamite.
The result is about a thousand times better than Longlegs, a movie that fell apart spectacularly in its second half.
However, like Napoleon Dynamite, this is a movie whose comedy frequently goes for "random and goofy" instead of "actually clever." It's the kind of film where every actor was seemingly told to go into…
No one else in our LA theater laughed at the joke about New York Citibikes. 😢
Walks a very thin line between being a traditional studio romcom and being a genuinely transgressive, political work. It accomplishes this seemingly impossible goal about as well as you could expect, so much so that the parade of cliches in the last act don’t just work on a surface level, they also feel earned.
Drags a bit in the middle and I felt the…
This is the only film franchise that deserves to exist.
Seriously, though, this is a worthy follow up to X that extends its themes in thoughtful ways while simultaneously giving us completely original ideas, a fully new aesthetic style, and a remarkable lead performance. What other sequels can make those claims?
If there's any justice in the world, this will be remembered as the best movie about pandemic isolation to be made during the Covid pandemic.
