Incredible. Epic. Gentle. Unsettling. Brilliant. Adrien Brody delivers a gorgeous, hypnotic, sympathetic performance as Laszlo Toth. Felicity Jones, as his ill wife, is no accessory. Guy Pearce slips in and out of the shadows. Brady Corbet directs a film where even the most innocuous of scenes simmers in nervousness, understanding the anxiety of the post-war immigrant experience excellently. The score, aesthetics, and editing are all gentle to the touch but masterful. I do not agree with everything this film does…
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Theater of Thought 2022
As a professor I respect said, there’s a difference between making a film because you have a good idea, and thinking that just because YOU had the idea, it must be good. Not particularly impressed with this and went into a far less interesting direction than I had hoped. If the point at the end was that no matter how complex of experiments we run or how much money we spend trying to figure out the brain — we’ll never understand what makes something as simple as a thought — then I wish we had explored that idea instead of disappointingly dropping the ball on it.
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The French Dispatch 2021
so self-indulgent, it forgot to be good. wes anderson may have wes andersoned too hard on this one.
it’s a visual and technical feat and certainly the work of a master, but the plot(s) are so dense, characters so lackluster, and dialogue so entangled that the entire film is difficult to follow.
it’s not unpleasant to sit through, but it’s also not really “fun.” a tease of charm and a moment of vulnerability keeps you latched on with the hope things will finally get to the rising action part, only to realize the whole thing is frustratingly monotoned.
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Last Night in Soho 2021
a stunning and masterful collection of edgar wright’s classic tropes, tricks, goofs, symbols, and motifs. constant tonal shifts make eloise’s ghostly descend even sweeter, and we see a thrilling villain that is both illusionary and reality. if you were expecting a serious and solemn horror film, you must have forgot who the writer is.
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