Alexander Payne is the master of the sad sack comedy. Watching this, one inevitably compares the habits of a oenophile with a cinephile. You can look, swirl, sniff, and sip your wine - or you can chug it from the spit bucket. The two approaches aren't all that different, and Payne shows that they're just different ways of getting to the same place. You can call it "today", or "the day after yesterday", but it's the same thing with different…
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Cool Hand Luke 1967
Definitely yelling "Taking it off, boss!!" every time I change my clothes now.
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Den of Thieves 2: Pantera 2025
Gerard Butler might be the best dirtbag cop actor working today. Everything about Big Nick is grimey, gross, and unflinchingly watchable, but the film does take a turn from full sugar Pepsi to La Croix when they go to Europe. The Letterboxd reviews saying this is the Miami Vice to the original's Heat are spot on. It becomes much more sanitized and stylish than the original, but the scene with Nick dancing at the club high on E more than…
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Novocaine 2025
The Deadpool/i>esque premise is taken and every drop of it is squeezed out to form this fun action-comedy, with some legitimately funny laughs. The action itself is subordinate to the innovative and grotesque kills. Like bear mace to the face or a medieval mace to the back, this film isn't very subtle, but it's effective.
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Perfect Days 2023
Wim Wenders and Koji Yakusho combine in this meditative and achingly beautiful film about a Tokyo toilet cleaner who has his daily routine down to a science, living a peaceful but self-reliant and purposefully lonely life. His days are filled only with diagetic sounds of the city and his impeccably tasteful 70s American music that reflect his moods and each moment of his life much better than any voiceover explanation could. Perfect Days shines a light on the invisible workers…
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Mickey 17 2025
Bong Joon-Ho's films are always big swings, and his latest is no different - a sci-fi satire that leans into genre and comedy much more than his other English-language predecessors. The cast is stacked but unevenly used - Robert Pattinson and Naomi Ackie are incredible, but Steven Yeun is underutilized and Mark Ruffalo's and Toni Collette's performances were one-note and off-putting. There are some really interesting conceits here but the film I would have rather seen is brushed over too…
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