“I’m still copying you though.”
“I know. Now copy this.”
I am standing in a room and I am looking at my dad.
It is 1996 and he is 33 years old and he is journaling hour by hour the day that I am born. He is the first person to ever put my name to paper. It is 2008 and he is 45 years old and he is gripping my arms too tight and screaming at me, so close I…
The artificiality of everything paired with the mesmerizing overlays is just to die for. Found myself totally obsessed with how the neon lights of the strip are perpetually intruding on every single interior. You can’t escape the gravitational pull of Vegas. Unless…
A near-perfect experience, if not for its decision to pull sharply away from its melancholic finale for something jarringly happily-ever-after. The post-watch debrief with pals has me adamantly stating those final few minutes aren’t real— not in the…
You’ve heard of iPhone Face. Now get ready for iPhone Fingers, the thing where a young actor isn’t using home row while typing and is instead hitting the keys one at a time.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a sweet movie! I was a closeted teen who spent a lot of their free time on tumblr in the early-2010s so in many ways, this movie was Made For Me™️. Except it’s been 10+ years since the song that started it…
Its genuine portrayal of faith as something worth interrogating adds a layer of depth to this that the other Knives Out films have lacked, which also means this is very noticeably the best of the trilogy. The use of cool and warm tone lighting is absolutely sublime. Laughed a lot, but more surprisingly, I was moved to tears on a few different occasions. So much about how this needles into the nuances of church-based community, especially for women, strikes a personal cord and is astoundingly effective.
“That poor girl.”
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Grossly irresponsible to make a film that attempts to examine the intensely vitriolic state of American politics amidst the earliest months of COVID and not mention how Trump, or the MAGA-sphere, directly amplified and exacerbated so many of those very issues. But at least we can laugh about the youths caring very loudly about George Floyd’s murder. And we can roll our eyes at the women who succumb to right-wing conspiracies as a coping mechanism to deal with trauma that…
