I wanted to check here to get a sense of how this piece of beautifully photographed, anthropomorphized garbage became an Oscar frontrunner and instead the main Letterboxd review page for this documentary is 50 people making the exact same two jokes.

Yes. The octopus is more his friend than his teacher.

Yes. He wants to fuck the octopus and it's gross.

You're all hilarious.

Sincere question: Is "My Octopus Teacher" intended as a parody of the countless nature documentaries in…

[Spoilers. I guess? Kinda?]

I thought 2019's "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" was borderline unbearable. From the inexcusable 131-minute running-time to a color palette and lighting scheme best described as "'Ozark'-esque," it delivered a couple fun monster-on-monster battles in its last 20 minutes but mostly it was a wretchedly acted, horribly paced dirge. I mean no particular disrespect to director Michael Dougherty when I say that I don't quite understand how he got the gig, because there is no notable…

I'm often a very big fan of Gary Oldman's work. He should have been Oscar nominated for "True Romance." He should have won for "Tinker Tailor." He should certainly have been nominated for his fat-suit Churchill performance (even if he shouldn't have won).

That's my prelude to this: Gary Oldman is just DREADFUL in "Mank." Do I need to add "IMO" or something silly? I'm a critic. This is my review. Of course it's my damn opinion.

It starts with…

[This does contain spoilers, but like... what's the point in caring?]

Over the years, I assume that there have been at least 50 commissioned "Coming to America" sequel scripts and, like a cannibalistic serial killer's refrigerator, bits and pieces of almost all of those scripts are scattered throughout "Coming 2 America," distributed without much interest in narrative momentum, character coherence or any particular cleverness, acted by a cast that feels less reunited and more on-loan from Madame Tussauds.

Money seems…