I mean.. I found this extremely long and fractured film to be completely funny and scary and bad and ridiculous and amazing and beautiful and strange and delightful and frustrating and annoying and sensational and boring and exciting and new and stupid and brilliant. My favorite feeling mid Lynch movie is where my logic control center in my brain (that has a tight grip on reality constantly) finally gets tired and gives up and the part of my brain that…
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Emilia Pérez 2024
My friends and I were kinda cracking the fuck up and pointing and laughing and being like this is so bad these songs are so bad like what’s going on is this so reductive and thin and then all of a sudden I was totally taken and moved. Can’t really explain the shift and not even really interested in investigating it. Just trusting that something shifted. That was cool to me. So I like hated and loved this. Kinda cool for that to be true. Zoe Saldana is so fucking good (she always has been). Karla Gascon great. How interesting ……
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The Brutalist 2024
I found the first act of this film to be genuinely quite astounding and moving. I was awash in its splendor.. Adrian Brody’s face like a canvas.. contorting and twisting into expressions of tremendous pain and joy. First 10 minutes had my jaw on the floor. I went into the intermission (so fabulous to have an intermission in the middle of a movie btw) so excited for the second half. UNFORT I found the second act to basically be a…
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Wicked 2024
I turned to Jacob at the beginning of the movie and cockily proclaimed “I probably won’t cry until the end honestly,” and I burst into tears 3 minutes in and was pretty much water works for the entire film. There were of course things I am critical about, mostly directorial, missed opportunities and awkwardness (particularly in its visual language), but how could I even really hear all those thoughts over my own screams and laughter and sighs and sobs. I…
