I feel bad giving two films five stars in the same week, but this movie has some of the most honest relationships I've seen on-screen in a good chunk of time. The dialogue is crystal, the camera shots are weirdly visceral, and the jazzy score is gonna be in my Spotify rotation all week.

Liev Schreiber, Parker Posey AND Stanley Tucci? Not to mention, Anne Meara as the controlling mother? Could be a new fave... Time will tell.

The energy in this film is "papable." 'Nough said.

(For real though, surprised by how much I enjoyed this. Ralph Fiennes' homily on certainty is still buzzing in my head.)

A brochure of Poland with a killer cousin dynamic. Kiernan and Jesse are perfect in this.

No pasta in this movie, but there are handcuffs.

A great character study & a beautiful cringe-fest. Loved all of the actors' performances (the world needs more Patton Oswalt), and how they captured the back-and-forth of social chatter was really captivating.

Still can't believe this happened to someone.

Paul Giamatti, wine talk, and dissecting a relationship's longevity got me through a head cold on a rainy Saturday night.

Never heard much about this Hitchcock film, and it ended up being a fantastic surprise! Loved watching the camera move around like a fly on the wall, and didn't realize that it was a pioneering example of the "long take."

It's an exciting character study around intellectual warfare, and the scattered hints around the apartment made for a killer 80 minutes (pun intended).

While I grew up three miles from Paterson's city limit, the world that Jim Jarmusch depicts in this film felt both familiar and distant to me.

This really calmed me in a way that I was not expecting. Gonna be thinking about this one for a few days...

It's amazing how much footage that this director has archived, and how it so elegantly threaded together this story over 25 years in the making.

All in all, a beautiful case-study around empathy in the face of self-healing. Loved it front to back.

I couldn't believe some of the camera shots in this film... The ability to get that up-and-close (literally, with the camera) with a candidate feels so bizarre and outdated. It really captures a parallel between both sides of the coin, and it really exemplifies the "timelessness" of campaign strategy.

In other words, it's wild to see similar techniques in the current campaign trail, even 64 years later.

This might be a new favorite Ghibli movie. Surprisingly really funny and thought-provoking for a children's flick.