Found Pattinson’s weirdness funny and thrilling in its commitment; meanwhile Ruffalo is doing a bad Trump impression. A representative divergence in this generally engaging but kind of drunkenly pitched movie. The comparisons it naturally draws to “Starship Troopers” do it no favors.
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We the Animals 2018
Zagar uses what I guess you could call a poetic visual style that is sometimes affecting and sometimes (too often) feels strained and precious. It's a movie that really wants to grab your heartstrings, and it's at its worst when it's trying its hardest.
Haven't read the book, though from the Q&A with Justin Torres afterwards, it sounds marginally more interesting — and a lot more queer — than this neutered, half-inspired memory play of a movie.
P.S. I feel like Rupi Kaur would like this? (That's not a compliment.)
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Call Me by Your Name 2017
Look, I love this movie; if that makes me a sappy queer, so be it. I think it’s refreshing to see a movie so earnestly romantic, one that doesn’t try to hedge its passions with doses of contemporary mumbly irony. There's something to Ivory’s script that feels audaciously starry-eyed; the idea of the eighty-nine year old legend writing such a youthful, yearning, and sexually frank script delights me. May we all be as alive to human passions when we reach…
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