Saw this on the flight from New York to Atlanta. I'd wanted to see this and had expected a silly little rom com, but a friend had told me he really liked it, and I was pleasantly surprised at how well-written it was. And then I discovered that Nick Payne (who wrote the play, Constellations) wrote this film. And it all made more sense. It feels like Constellations, in the non-linear, memory-oriented way of telling a love story, of each…

I heard way too much about this film before I finally saw it – I'll say, this film completely took me off guard. Even though I knew so much abou tit going into it. The singing took me off guard (Zoe Saldana really sells it, but gosh the "Penis to Vagina" song was so bizarrely written, I can only explain it via the fact that this film was meant to be French/was adapted from French, and there are elements of…

The only reason this isn't getting 5 stars is because it wasn't a perfect movie. But I was blown away by so many aspects of this film – the intermission (stunningly good; more movies should be doing this! like theatre, please!), the visuals, the acting (yes, more on the AI conversation below), the writing, the direction. I thought this was an epic in the sense of its attempt at something big. It was not perfect by any means, but I…

A truly stunning film. I have never seen a film shot entirely in POV, and I had doubts about whether or not it would work. But it did. So beautifully shot, so heartbreaking. Even though you don't see much of the violence, because it's shot from POV, it's so hard to watch, because it feels so visceral in my body. I had a conversation with a friend who had seen the film, and he felt like it was gratuitous, and…