Before the end it yelped, as if it had seen something real
Score: 83/100
A dense, throbbing mass of a thing. A million pre-post-soviet paranoias compressed down into a single roiling kink. I'm not really all that sure even this movie knows what it's about, but it certainly has a good sense of the territory, and it maps more of it out than most films are willing to dare.
Isabelle Adjani delivers an all-time ripper of a performance here. There's…
Don't be confused. It's just gonna make it worse for me.
74/100
A queasy, taut thriller that feels like the answer to the question, "what if Nicolas Winding Refn had been part of Scorsese's generation of filmmakers?"
The first sixty minutes of Good Time are some of the most immersive filmmaking you could ask for - less abrasive than the Safdie brothers' work in Uncut JAHMS but just as compelling. Every moment from Connie's eruption into Nick's pysch eval through…
Once in a while when I wake up, I find myself crying.
Score: 83/100
I really liked La La Land. It had its issues, but it hit on the exact notes of sentimental melodrama that works for me best - that feeling of broken hearts from near misses and the pain of hanging onto hope. The last fifteen minutes of La La Land lets you slip into a parenthetical fantasy where it all worked out the way you wished it…
Can’t believe how much better an outing this was than the last one.
For a sixty year old movie about a douchebag plotting to kill his wife so he can bang his 16 year old cousin, it’s pretty good.
It took me a hot second to figure out how I felt about this one. I think I've finally settled on "really really damn good."
It's a little too long. Robin Wright's character suffers from a script that is sometimes more interested in the film's IDEAS than the character herself. Jared Leto's character suffers from being played by Jared Leto. There are a couple moments where it holds the audience's hand a little more than Ridley Scott's original film did,…
