I remember daydreaming many years ago about what a Wes Anderson horror movie would look like, not in the jokey SNL way but imagining those pristine camera moves keeping the viewer trapped in a single haunted space. This looks almost exactly how I remember my fantasy looking, but I couldn't have imagined the stress Anderson would be capable of working in that mode, his usual unspoken sadness the only thing differentiating this from a masterful pressure-cooker exercise; he's put me…
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Resident Evil 2002
Thank you Paul W.S. Anderson for my friend Alice. The movie Alice is pretty cool too, though the movie doesn't do quite enough with her piecing together her identity relative to the amount of military grunts battling unimaginatively-designed zombies. A great opening 10 minutes and then it falls into a pretty predictable muddle with some high highs (the lasers obviously, the dogs, the Red Queen being such a little brat). But it rights itself in the home stretch and has…
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Love & Mercy 2014
A film with the shocking revelation that there are people worse than Mike Love out there.
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The Big Short 2015
Adam McKay is telling you a joke. It's a brilliant joke, one of his best. But the only punchline is "fuck you". And McKay can't get through it without bursting into tears. That's the movie.
