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Mickey 17 2025
I always admire the off-beat direction that filmmakers go in when they're given a huge budget following a triumphant Oscar win and Bong Joon Ho definitely puts his foot to the pedal here. He retains the quirky dark humor seen in his debut Barking Dogs Never Bite and fuses the apocalyptic, dystopian elements of Snowpiercer in his latest work. There's also the pure nature of human empathy portrayed throughout this one, and the charismatic performances makes this a fun watch.
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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975
Bear with this analogy, but Jeanne Dielman is the like the 100 Gecs of films in cinema (iykyk). It's bold how the director makes you work for every single sequence, but the points of everyday mundanity and repression comes across quite stoically. A lot is accomplished by what Chantal Akerman ultimately decides to show, and equally by what she chooses not to show. All I know is that I want to give Jeanne a long and tender hug.
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
Thelma Schoonmaker really put on a masterclass in pacing with her editing in this one. I was invested throughout the entire runtime and each fatal moment had such a potent payoff. I loved Marty's artistic approach towards how he wanted to present his epilogue of this epic to his audience. Blunt, poetic, harrowing...
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