"That's the ugliest thing I've ever seen in my whole life!" a little girl (Bethany Simons-Denville) exclaims. She shouts it at the audience, who, in Seed of Chucky's first-person opening scene, takes a queer kid's point-of-view. As she throws them into a toy chest, it's like we fall into a closet. The kid comes out soon after and, in a Halloween riff, murders the girl's parents. She reappears to scream at us. It's a nightmare and, before we can fully…
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Elephant 2003
This movie means so, so much to me.
I was too young to remember the Columbine High School massacre when it happened, but I distinctly remember growing up around its impact. It was so real it immediately became a myth to most. And yet it wasn't just one I always knew. It was one I grew up learning more about. My oldest sister was in high school when it happened; my two other sisters were in high school while I…
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The Monkey 2025
I'm not going to bother comparing my reaction here to what I thought of Longlegs because the two movies are totally different. I will say this, though: Holy hell, this thing is boring. Structurally, it's like someone tried to reverse-engineer an anthology back to a single arc. You can basically feel the script's sutures in every other scene, and at its worst, it's like the film is bored with itself, twiddling its thumbs until something happens in the last 20 minutes. Even…
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Felidae 1994
Perhaps this'll grow a little in my esteem, but I wondered during the movie why my mind kept wandering. Frankly, I think it's because this just feels very quick. Once I realized what the allegory was, I sort of just thought, Oh, okay, we're doing this. And the "this" in question is fine—largely bolstered by the splashes of genre portmanteau, which I would have liked more of—but it's as if the movie places its audience too far ahead of its…
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Saltburn 2023
This isn't a review or anything. Let me just vomit some issues I have with this, since it clearly didn't give me anything of real worth to chew on.
I would say that this is what it satirizes, but first off, that's a boring critique. Second, is it really satirizing anything? It's empty and obvious and all those descriptors, but it seems to have way too much fun with its perfume-ad-meets-McBling aesthetic, which itself reads as immaterial, just as much…
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Longlegs 2024
As FBI agents mention the final book of the Bible, one calls it "Revelations." Then "semi-psychic" Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) corrects them. "Revelation. Singular," she says, eyes glued to the ground as she pivots past, but not toward, the camera. It's the mid-1990s and unsolved Satanic killings have resumed in the Pacific Northwest. Harker has been assigned the case and, with a talent for cryptology and patterns, spends evenings examining the perpetrator's Zodiac-like letters. But Longlegs is a cold film,…
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