It's been a long time since I've been so completely and utterly charmed by a film, but Paper Moon hit that spot just right. Ryan and Tatum O'Neal are obviously perfectly cast, and, just as with The Last Picture Show, director Peter Bogdanovich's love affair with the movies is evident in every single frame of this moving, funny, sentimental film.
I love that the film eschews the cynicism of many of the other New Hollywood films of the '70s and…
To me, The Brutalist is far and away the best film of 2024. Like, seriously, it isn't close. Just a monumental achievement that I would put next to the likes of, say, Drive My Car as one of the best films of the decade so far.
I apologize for my lack of anything particularly profound to say about this film, but I've been writing film analysis all night for school and my brain is shot. I'm just glad that I…
I am literally shocked by the unanimously positive reception that this film has received. I don't check reviews before I watch a film, so it's absolutely blowing my mind that it currently sits at 94% on Rotten Tomatoes and 3.8 here on Letterboxd.
Do we all collectively have a lower bar for gay content? But then again, so do I, and Fire Island still failed to clear it. Horrible voiceover, a horrible main character, a horrible love interest, a confusing…
Man, this is a film of two halves if I've ever seen one. The first half is entertaining, original, funny, and thought-provoking. The second half is illogical, tonally-inconsistent, and abandons most, if not all, of the interesting narrative threads from the first half. It's very obvious that this is a film that languished in development hell for years before being made.
Will Smith and Charlize Theron deliver nice performances throughout the film, though, so that's a plus. My only film-wide…
