Letterboxd — Your life in film

Thrilled to come on this website and see everyone shit on this for the exact same reasons as the (excellent) book, which means Esmail did a fantastic job with the adaptation. A giant middle finger to genre expectations (all build-up, no payoff) and a fantastic takedown of being white and privileged in the middle of the catastrophe. Wish the camera would have chilled out just a little bit (you'll never be Knock at the Cabin) but it works more often than it doesn't. Totally hilarious that the Obamas produced this.

Tag urself I'm Emma having a nosebleed and almost fainting the minute someone shows genuine affection for her.

Amazing, I think, honestly don’t really understand it. Simultaneously unlike anything Miyazaki has tackled before but also (somehow?) the culmination of six decades of consistently raising the bar for animation and storytelling at large. Eternally grateful I got to catch this in theatres, maybe our greatest living filmmaker.

Gotta love the classic Hollywood comedy where everyone has their little shtick™️ and is also a shitty liar in a plot built around deception, Barbara Stanwyck underrated mother doing this right after Double Indemnity we love the range.

Julianne Moore absolutely devouring in the I don't give a fuck awards this year.

Suffocating in how Burch's screenplay insists on mundanity, generally eschewing outward melodrama in place of camp by way of behavior. The whole situation is rife for explosive outbursts and over-the-top monologues and yet... they're just talking? It creates this unbearable cognitive dissonance that elicits nervous laughs and squirms in equal measure, a highlight in a year that has given us many great uncomfortable watches. Career best work from everyone involved and I'm very excited to see what Melton does next. Release Coyote vs. Acme!

When it’s funny it’s hilarious! When it’s not I kept checking the time waiting for it to end. Jennifer Lawrence is one of our last true movie stars. Andrew Barth Feldman looks like the kind of guy girls on TikTok wish they could peg.

Totally disarming even with the popular sentiments expressed in most of the reviews. The prime example of a movie respectfully acknowledging its influences while not being afraid to do its own thing. Also totally great to see a teenage character who actually acts whiny/immature/impulsive so good on Dominic Sessa and I will be leading the charge for his Oscar nomination. Didn't think anything could take Oppenheimer off the top spot of the year but I'm not complaining!

Further proof that the best (and maybe only) good thing to come out of the French New Wave was showing Hollywood that you were actually allowed to be funky with the editing. Still feels like a game-changer fifty years later. Incredibly thankful to be done with the AFI top 100 list, hope they update it soon.

Felt lukewarm about this for the first 90 minutes, mostly due to my overall apathy to the genre. But holy shit those last thirty minutes are a perfect succession of character beats that lets everything previous snap into place with (what looks like) a flawless hand. Pretty much the gold standard for genre revisionism and a high point for everyone involved. Only one more movie left on the AFI list!

Clark Griswold has canonically ripped an entire pine tree out of the ground with his bare hands.

Need a spin-off short film about Mr. Bean recruiting a psychotic rat to be his animal security guard I think there’s a lot of comedy there.