It feels somewhat wrong to give a film with this kind of subject matter that is formally taking such big swings a poor rating, but too many times in this film, I felt that the swings were being taken holding the wrong end of the bat.
Conceptually, I have no issue with making the entire film in POV shots, I was on board for the idea and somewhat excited for how Ross and Fray would handle it. While there are…
I don't come away from The Last Showgirl particularly convinced that the characters in this film are fully fleshed out or that the connective tissue between scenes really holds up as a script overall. However, the cinematic aspect of this film does so much of the heavy lifting for the themes that I can forgive and forget some of the less polished dialogue scenes and over-explanation of the themes. That is, the attention to the pink and blue styled palette…
I dearly hope that the lesson learned from the success of *Across the Spider-verse* is not that we need more multiverse movies, but that there is a space for high-budget animated films not explicitly targeted to children, and that they're worth watching.
Beyond the obvious technical aspects of how well animated all the characters are, and how well they're kept together cohesively in the same frame with different styles and idiosyncratic movement, it's impressive how much personality all of the…
Formally impressive, interminably dull. Like the myriad of filth-smeared peasants that jump in front of the camera to make funny faces, A. German seems far more interested in being noticed than telling what should have been a story with an easily engaging and complex theme.
