“I shall not today attempt further to definite good movies, but I know them when I see them.” — Potter Stewart on film criticism, sort of
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Contraband 1980
A character at one point says “I only like the best—caviar and champagne” and that pretty much sums up why I love this movie—because it’s the fucking champagne and caviar of 70s Euro-crime. Oh also he says this right before his throat fucking explodes in a glorious burst of hyper stylized bright red gore.
Lucio Fulci tries his hand at making a poliziotteschi with stellar results. This movie rules. Fulci takes the gritty crime story that is standard to the genre and adds…
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Days of Thunder 1990
If this didn’t have 27 year old Tom Cruise in peak charisma mode and lovable hack extraordinaire Tony Scott hamming everything up to 8,000 I would probably hate this. I still somewhat do. It is sooooooooooooo dumb but I kind of had a good time with it. I couldn’t care less about NASCAR, and the attempts to sexy it up are laughably lame, but maybe that’s part of the charm?
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Blue Chips 1994
Really don’t understand why this one isn’t way more liked and discussed. Friedkin was the king of directing movies about pissed off dudes under a lot of pressure. This really has everything I want in a movie—characters, pacing, tension, story, casting, acting. Even the moments of humor are genuinely funny. Yeah ok the ex-wife story drags a bit but this film is compelling, entertaining, and fun.
What more do you want?
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American Psycho 2000
It’s time to throw objectivity out the window, folks. I can’t really disagree with anyone who doesn’t like this film; it’s incredibly on the nose, it’s super over the top, it’s way too melodramatic, it’s astonishingly cheesy. I wouldn’t blame anyone for watching this and thinking, “this is really dumb.”
I don’t care.
Christian Bale is so perfect in this film that every single line of dialogue he speaks makes me laugh. I’m not even exaggerating. This is scathing satire…
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A Complete Unknown 2024
As a celebration of Dylan’s music and the New York folk scene, this is pretty flawless. All the acting is phenomenal, the singing the production design the clothes cars sets everything, great. As a character study on Dylan the man though, it’s pretty lacking. But most importantly, as a piece of popular entertainment, it crushes. Chalamet stands alone in his greatness.
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