This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I wish I had seen this before awards season because it’s a fun body horror film but it’s so rare that a horror movie gets this much award recognition (justice for Toni Collette!!!) so I was really expecting something special and it just didn’t blow me away.
As a satire, it doesn’t really work for me. What is the impetus for Elizabeth to keep forging ahead? We’re told over and over (very unsubtly) that she and Sue are one, but…
This movie was everything I hoped it would be and more. I've loved this little dude for years — when I was in college we used to watch the shorts over and over in my Intro to Journalism class (for some reason). The film captures all the heart and humour of the shorts and amplifies it in a beautiful way. Absolutely loved it.
Also, big year for movies with Jenny Slate, a reference to everything bagels, and a googly-eyed stop-motion creature that made me ugly cry in public.
