It’s been about five years since I last saw The Blair Witch Project, and this time I was swept up in how thematically rich it is—and in a way that harkens back to classic horror films, like Halloween. Our three leads—Heather, Mike, and Josh—are so distinctly ‘90s college kids; they wear baggy flannel, cheap plastic headbands, and, among the men, a slacker-ish disaffection. Heather, unlike the rest of her crew, cares. It's her documentary, and she drives her team's excitement…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
That this movie is, at the time of writing, the highest-rated film on Letterboxd does not surprise me. Everything Everywhere All At Once is a film about the internet. The title itself describes the internet. Its manic humor is r/random internet-weirdo humor. The multiverse is displayed via smartphones. The husband in the Alphaverse is wired into a computer that might as well be the prototype of a Matrix rig. One of its root conflicts will be familiar to anyone who is…
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Take Out 2004
Makes you feel every minute of a long workday, for better and worse. Ming is a sympathetic protagonist, but he lacks character. Of course, some of that is by design, but it is also what holds the movie back from ascending to the next level, as Sean Baker’s most recent films so consistently do. I have respect more for the intentions and humanity of this film than for its execution of those intentions.
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Conclave 2024
Entertaining; better than I expected. But the ending is so jarring and unpersuasive; it shrugs off a huge twist in a way reminiscent of “Poochie died on the way back to his home planet.”
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Elvis 2022
Cannot tell if camp masterpiece or what. Methamphetamine pacing. Party City wigs. Two hours and forty minutes and yet puddle-deep characterization. Baz put all his cameras on tilt-o-whirls. Overall, dogshit directing. Movie SCREAMS its subtext. Austin Butler, camp legend; if he wins Oscar, hilarious. Tom Hanks doing five accents, including one that feels very anti-Semitic, and then saying he’s from “West Virginia” (or even Holland!). Hanks saying, “He took to them pills.” Never laughed harder, twice. Awful film. Had a lot of fun.
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