Category: Film
Love Lies Bleeding
The gays deserve better. What started as a sweet and steamy retro lesbian U-Haul romance story quickly devolved into soap opera level twists and turns in the criminal thriller plot. I think the second half was supposed to be shocking, but it was mostly boring and vapid. The kind of stuff that falls apart once […]
Aftersun
An extremely beautiful film, Aftersun is a slow, melancholic, and nostalgic story on childhood, fatherhood, depression, and our memories of the important people in our lives. Every scene felt extremely relatable to me, with much of the film focused on simply showing how it feels to be eleven. We see in detail how she experiences the […]
Everything Everywhere All at Once
For a movie that truly values sincerity, why must it dangle keys in my face as if I’m a baby that needs to be kept entertained? A good story, with a good idea for telling it, is bogged down by incessantly having to stop and point out how “silly” it is. The humor fell flat. […]
Avatar: The Way of Water
Avatar: The Way of Water whips ass—no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Unless you really disliked the first movie, go see it on the biggest screen you can. See it not simply for the visuals (though it does look even more jaw dropping than the first), but for the thrilling action sequences and enchanting […]
The Banshees of Inisherin
An intensely sad but darkly funny contemplation of what the point of all this is, the various ways we can try to feel satisfied in life, and how we should treat one another. It was deeply moving. I’d highly recommend it, even if I wouldn’t want to watch it again any time soon. I didn’t […]
In Brief — Decision to Leave
Decision to Leave was immediately gripping. I found myself thinking “oh fuck yes” several times, as I was served deliciously weird and unique characters, each scene leaving me more and more intrigued on what everyone’s deal is, and what this may spell for the murder mystery. The editing and pace of the film was attention-grabbing, […]
In Brief — Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Glass Onion is a fun movie, but the mystery began to seem less and less clever the farther I walked home from the theater. Benoit Blanc is an incredibly charismatic character (I could probably watch Daniel Craig do that for hours), and Edward Norton is a great cast, but Janelle Monáe’s character easily stole the […]
Star Trek 7–10 (TNG films)
After finishing the great trilogy of Star Trek TV series—The Next Generation (TNG), Deep Space Nine, and Voyager—I set out on watching all mainline Star Trek films (i.e., the first ten, which excludes J.J. Abrams’ prequel reboot series) prior to beginning Picard, as that is the first property to continue forward in the Star Trek […]