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Babylon 2022
The most chaste “hedonistic” film I’ve ever seen. For all the talk of how dynamic and exciting this is, especially the opening party scene, I don’t think there was a single interesting image in the entire film. A drab imitation of excess from the most tightly wound guy you know. I hated this.
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Epilogue 1950
There's a franticness to the opening of Epilogue, as if Helmut Käutner, who both directed and co-wrote the film (a decade later, he played the same dual role on the fantastic Black Gravel), needs to cram all of the introductory material he considers crucial into the first 10 minutes. It's ill-advised and gimmicky, shot Lady in the Lake-style, with the breathless narrator positioned as the camera. Once that is all out of the way and the film calms down, however,…
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Aftersun 2022
Wells has an eye, Corio and Mescal are lovely together but this feels like a 102 minute short that didn’t deliver unto me the emotional blows it dealt out to others. Especially significant that I was left cold and frankly bored given my own relationship to my dad which is almost identical to Sophie’s.
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Frances Ha 2012
This is the kind of movie that causes strongly polarized reactions based on each viewer's capacity to tolerate/recognize/empathize with those on-screen. Some people just can't handle watching 20-/30-something white people undergo minor crises within a basically privileged framework, which is understandable. (That said, I'm not sure why someone with that mindset would ever go watch ANY NOAH BAUMBACH MOVIE and ask afterwards — as some guy did — " if it had any sort of larger social context… besides only…
