Greta Gerwig’s best movie. So much ink could be spilled over the way that this film shapes its pretty dense source material into something that’s simultaneously more accessible through a modern lens and also an absolute blast to watch from beginning to end. I got to see this again under pretty ideal conditions (one of my roommates gushing over every scene, it being her favorite movie), which really helped the admiration I had for it back in 2019 grow and…

Idk man. I loved World’s Fair but this just kind of felt like a less subtle, more expensive and awkward version of that? But swapping out youtube creepypastas with a Buffy-esque 90s show for the piece of media that makes the characters feel more real than real life. 

Awkward is the key word. I really can’t emphasize enough how stilted the dialogue and performances are, which worked to the movie’s benefit in World’s Fair but ends up kneecapping the emotional core of…