the kind of movie that reveals our own critical biases in really clear ways. above all i think Anora is a mostly fun, an effective slaptstick comedy that isn't really trying to say too much about the state of the world itself and yet the largest critical debates have become about its message or lack thereof. but does that criticism of the movie really matter if the intention on Sean Baker's intention wasn't to have some highly intellectual take on…

i personally don't want to live in a world where some too rich for life actor isn't making a dumb as rocks, all style, no substance movie.

there's been a very specific group-think hatred for this movie that was better served for Emerald Fennell's Promising Young Woman, which does feel insulting in comparison to Saltburn. in comparison many of the common reoccurring critiques for Saltburn come off disingenuous to what’s actually being presented on screen.

Is Saltburn dumb yes? is…

we're so oversaturated with movies poking fun of rich people that i checked out of this one immediately as soon julia roberts and ethan hawke's apartment. i simply do not care what happens to these people and I know the movie doesn't particularly need you to care for them, but it does rely on things happening to them, therefor it does rely on you being invested in them.

a movie about a technology inspired cataclysm that doesn't understand scale and…

a bit too much edgar wright-i-ness to it for me to fully fuck with it, but ultimately it commits to its premise and characters in allowing them to grow within its premise and the cast really sells the hell out of all of it.

i mostly hate cutesy fight scenes so as a personal preference, my stance is fight or don't fight, but don't give me joke-y fight scenes which rarely work because directors don't know how to get their…

we need to stop the trend sleepy, dreary, charisma-less romantic comedies. Fingernails is another in the long line of movies that think casting attractive or internet popular performers is enough to sell a rom com where the message is love isn't predictable. naturally here is a movie that tries to manufacture an indie hit on the strength of its actors when doing little to establish any chemistry.

i think of the idea of having a crush or falling in love…

frustrating movie ultimately about closure that so badly wants you to feel the decades long connection between Nora and Hae Sung but doesn’t do much visually to establish that connection. it’s a connection that spans decades but camera is so dull, dreary and un lively throughout there is no sense of the connection established that survived a few decades. the dreariness in the present day scenes makes sense since there is no spark meant to be rekindled, Nora has no…

how to blow up a pipeline functions as a decent thriller but ultimately falls apart as a strong political movie. 

the movie is most watchable when it’s focusing on the set up of the mission and watching the various eco activists play their roles. where it really struggles with pacing is when it cuts to give backstory and motivation for each of them. i haven’t read the source material so maybe the point of the book and film ultimately is…

noah keeps wasting his time making movies trying live vicariously through adam driver including his own flaws and all when he could have used the time hitting the weights at planet fitness. a coach who doesn’t understand or forgotten how to install a system that plays to hid players strengths and weaknesses. Greta is his MVP throughout his career and here to take a back seat to the Driver show. and once again the only director to truly understand adam…

sacrifices aesthetics and the sensory immersion of the original in favor of dialogue that spells out everything and backstory. 

in the original candyman the screen left you smelling what was happening. the blood, the bees, the decay and rot and the destruction Helen brings to the neighborhood with her mere presence of being there. in Mia’s version we sacrifice the senses for a millennial polish that gentrification brings. the movie shifts from posh soulless condos, to big art rooms, back…