Film Reviews

I really wish this series could just be its own thing outside the “marvel” “universe”

Creative team really should have given more control to whoever pitched “t-rex with big burly arms”

Ponyo fills my heart. It overflows.

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Cringe.

The original may be aesthetically superior, with those citric pink sunsets, extended plane porn montages, and glamorously lit sweaty bodies, but this one delivers on thrills and excitement on a much more real and visceral level — and they kept Danger Zone!

Top Gun is a postcard. Maverick is being there.

I really want to follow Yang on Instagram and cry at his intensely beautiful and melancholy Live Photos.

Gets better every time.

The tone is pitch-perfect — the aesthetic, the performances, down to how karmically predictable some of the twists are. Love all the little props, such delicate artefacts, all feeling like they could tell a whole story. I couldn’t stop thinking of Ricky Jay, and now I find myself wishing for a Del Toro film about him. Or maybe just the objects he left behind.

For nearly two hours, the entire world disappeared and I wanted nothing more than to see a dog trust a robot.

I couldn’t possibly predict twists this dumb, and that just made them all the more effective. Hats off to this movie!

John Wick has been losing its way but this movie knows what it’s all about. A blur of a 90-minute punch in the face — just enough to put you in the hospital, not enough to kill you of overstimulation.

I learned that Toni Collette is australian in real life. Next: do solar storms actually look like that? This movie is great at making me want to check Wikipedia.

Release, at last.

Like leafing through a big coffee table book. Not particularly insightful, but very nice pictures.

The uncanny valley between the ponderous Godzilla 2014 and the bombastically campy Godzilla vs. Kong. I’m sorry but if you want to make a serious movie you have to stick to the serious monsters, you can’t put on the three-headed electric dragon and big moth. Pokémon aren’t scary.