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Fish Tank 2009
I don’t want to say timeless, because it’s only 16 years old (a very uncomfortable turn of phrase after watching this film), but something about Fish Tank makes it feel as if it came out yesterday. Very intimate and tender in the way it lingers on details, often uncomfortably so. The birds, the bloody windshield or the man shouting in the street paint moments that feel as deep as you want them to be. Very underrated use of colour. Hits all the marks it aims for.
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Grand Theft Hamlet 2024
When the film feels its most real, and the least detached from the in-game world, not caught up in forced irony or self-awareness, it really works. Regardless, the worlds of the most famous playwright and Rockstar’s violent online city come together well. I think everyone would take away something unique from this, no doubt due to their personal knowledge (or lack thereof) with each of the universes the film attempts to combine.
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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood 2019
My following thoughts are most probably the product of recency bias, yet I pray that they sustain, since my feelings towards this film are of such a goodwill that it’s genuinely refreshing. Where to start, with what feels like such a dense and interesting film?
Dense perhaps feels like the wrong word; OUATIH (yikes!) is undoubtedly a hangout film, and this marks a refreshing change for Tarantino; the less rigid structure allows for an opportunity to revel in the 60s…
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Groundhog Day 1993
I think I decided a few months ago that this was one of the greatest comedies, or even one of the greatest films, of all time. Watching through this, I was immensely certain of this judgement. All the emotional beats register so well, and the comedy is beautifully pitch-perfect. The editing works so well it’s practically invisible.
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