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House of Gucci 2021
fun and goofy but too long. lady gaga was very good. the first half was definitely better than the second. and keep jared pedo out of movies
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Licorice Pizza 2021
annoying blue check critics: groovy, soulful, and a little funky!! a love letter to california in the 70s!
me and the fellas: this is a movie about being a young pimp hustler, snapping necks and cashing checks.
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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City 2021
The definition of a C+. That being said, when you’ve got movies like Neal McDonagh and Donal Logue in ‘em, you can’t lose.
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Zeros and Ones 2021
Nobody needed to make the definitive COVID movie but nonetheless amazed at how this manifests visual-aural sensations of 2020 — wandering empty streets, every meet-up a clandestine operation, failing to compartmentalize bits and pieces of information from a phone. Had almost no idea what was going on at any moment, kept thinking my TV was fucked up. Already seems a key text.
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Licorice Pizza 2021
A movie for anyone who's ever been in love or had a really hot Jewish babysitter. The kind of movie that makes you want to stand up and cheer!
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The Matrix 1999
The dominant metaphor of our times and its not even close. Probably the most culturally significant movie of the last 25 years or so.
UPDATE - blocking everyone who commented below.
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The Matrix 1999
hadnt seen this since that five-or-so year stretch following its opening where it felt everything in pop culture was a reflection of it. seeing it now, i'm so taken with the Wachowski's classical film grammar and synthesis of the previous 50 years of cinema while simultaneously forging new cinematic dialects. just stunning.
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Those Who Wish Me Dead 2021
I think this one might be kind of brilliant, and had I the wherewithal and the planning to have waited to see in theaters, I would maybe call it a soft masterpiece. listen, I texted Caroline that I might have loved the picture and she texted me back the absurd screenshot of Aidan Gillan and Nick Hoult in their "ma'am, we're here to check your meter" disguises with a voice memo that said, "why are they wearing different outfits? why…
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Those Who Wish Me Dead 2021
every time they cut to the flashback of the three kids just standing around in the middle of a forest fire i thought I was watching Wet Hot American Summer.