I felt locked into this film from the very first shot. I’ve sat here trying to decide how best to review it, but at its core it just feels like something made to appeal directly to my sensibilities. The opening ten minutes employs some inventive blocking to great comedic effect and feels like an effortless blend of a Wes Anderson and the child-focused Iranian films of Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi. There’s a surreal edge to much of the comedy…
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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 2024
A delight. This captures the feel of the shorts much better than Curse of the Were-Rabbit, which I always found a bit staid. If it wasn’t for Flow, this would’ve easily been my favorite animated film of the year.
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Only God Forgives 2013
If this were mere style-without-substance, as many of it's detractors have claimed, Refn's eye for exquisite imagery might be enough to carry the thing, but it's not. There is substance, and Refn keys you into it early on when he cuts from an arm being severed to a woman having an orgasm. Also, Ryan Gosling is doing the same brooding sociopath thing he did in Drive, but this time around there isn't a Carey Mulligan to bring that into relief.…
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tick, tick... BOOM! 2021
Apologies to film club friends who may read this (looking at you, mandy)
This is just a lesser version of All That Jazz, right? Maybe it’s because I just watched All That Jazz last week, but I couldn’t help but compare these two films about workaholic Broadway guys interrogating their own shortcomings.
I also have a lot more patience for “what have I done with my life?” coming from a 50-year-old trying to come to terms with the wreckage that…
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