Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This is a risibly, breathtakingly stupid movie set in a world in which men come in all races, sizes and ages (Simon Pegg, Esai Morales and Ving Rhames exist!) but women come in only one make and model: young, hot, with a British accent and MMA skills (Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Pom Klementieff, and Hayley Atwell). With all of the advances humanity has accomplished in the field of technology since the release of "The Matrix," the makers of this movie…
I wasn't exactly amped to watch a 2.5-hour film of a live performance of Die Zauberflote in Swedish, but I'm down with whatever Ingmar Bergman wants to make a movie about. Here's how it goes:
Overture: Just music, nothing to look at, so Ingmar gives us shot after shot of Swedes Listening. Adorable rosy-cheeked child Swedes! Hot young Swedes in outfits that would fit right in at a Noah Kahan album listening party! Profound aging Swedes contemplating getting thrown off…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I was resistant to this one for a long time. It seemed like the flagship movie for twee ballet girls. Boy, was I wrong. This movie goes SO HARD. Moira Shearer was a very successful professional ballet dancer before landing this role, so it's all her dancing - no cutaways to a body double here. This is essentially a film about the impossibility of an artistic life for a woman, which is in some ways still a thing? But boy,…