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Always on the verge of going off the rails but never off the rails. Gotta love a loose-cannon Joaquin though

But 4 stars to Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, and that great score. Idk just more Wes Anderson plug and play  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Don't be the guy with the job to go to the bottom of the well

I don’t want to be that annoying American that tells people I’m Norwegian but what can I say these are my people

Her: "If you could see [this whole movie] from start to finish, would you change things?"

Me: "No" :')

A 140-minute runtime? What will they even talk about that whole time?

*is a silent film*

Rn just wondering if Asics got paid to have their brand name on a semi-basement sock in the first shot

Just as the men in the film are engaging in a precarious balancing act, so, too, does the film balance a certain joyousness with a clear sense of alarm. Each of the movie's tonal shifts emphasizes its ambivalent stance on alcohol, and nowhere is it less clear what the movie is trying to preach than at its celebratory finale. It avoids cliche by telling us: it's complicated, and our inability to calculate the precise spot in the gray area that does us the most good might mean we just need to make things black and white for ourselves, and come to with the implications.

Started out pretty slow and then got kinda lit. Praise be to the hand-drawn animation gods

The Outrun took adjacent themes and imbued them with a little more symbolism and depth. However, both movies lack the airtight writing of something like Aftersun or the immaculate performances of a film like To Leslie. If you're going to have a slow, contemplative movie grappling with weighty themes, you've got to make sure not a line nor a facial expression goes wasted.

“SHUT. SHUT. SHUT. SHUT. SHUT UP.”

- me to this movie’s sound mixing

But I did like the "raise your hand if that sounds fishy" line

I also would’ve started tweaking after eating garlic tbf

If anyone is in the mood for an old movie, know that this is a sneaky great. Not enough could be said in praise of Audrey Hepburn's delivery of such a humanizing line: "Will you come with me?"

Has a lot of heart and I like Fox even more after it

A trite hodgepodge of hollow aphorisms preying on people's emotional instability, especially in the wake of COVID. Look, I get it. Life is super hard, and everyone needs purpose and hope to get through things. But trying SO HARD to make the point honestly makes it... worse?

I in college someone had painted a mural on this wall overlooking a park saying in big bold letters "YOU ARE LOVED," a line this movie uses like three times. First, ive voice, ew. Second, cliche and tired. Third, begs the question, who did they write that for? Because they certainly don't know me or you, and have no way of ing that that's the case. And, while it's almost certainly true, them throwing that around makes it feel meaningless. It isn't an observation, it's a guess.

E.g. in this short, there's a part where the animals are telling the boy that he brings so much to the world etc. etc. Really? This boy has AMNESIA. He doesn't know who he is or where he came from and is probably the flattest character ever created. No shade to the boy; once again, probably true that the world is a better place with him in it. Seems like a nice kid. But major shade to the writers! Show us that! Don't just throw these empty lines at us and expect us to believe it!!! We want to see ourselves in a character getting those kinds of affirmations!!! We don't see ourselves in this amnesia boy!!!! It's the impersonal mural all over again.

Beautiful animation anyway!

The shot of Ferdinand being afraid to enter the arena is such a cute one

Mickey simped hard in this but ngl kinda worked

Panning up to the petrified tree definitely got a chuckle from me

Why they talkin and laughin like that

Wildly uncomfortable for it's lack of narrative, animation style, and above all else, its racist tropes

Guy Pearce. Good-lookin guy. But I gotta be honest, I have face blindness when it comes to Guy Pearce. I haven't recognized Guy Pearce in a single movie or trailer, ever. Even if I know it's Guy Pearce, part of me always goes, "Wait, is that the same Guy Pearce that was in that last thing?" Guy Pearce could be walking down the street and I wouldn't know it was Guy Pearce.

brb writing Mr. Orange's pep talk to himself on a sticky note to put on my mirror

The piano teacher :')

Mitchell and I are doing Wyler for April, and so far this one seems the rawest and subtly the most subversive for its time.

Three stars but I WILL be playing this soundtrack on repeat thank you

I kept waiting for something profound to hit me, and it just never got there. Loved the cemetery scene though! And a good reminder that kindness in the face of anger or belligerence can disrupt a lot of negativity in the world.

I just know all the other directors were jealous af of the chariot racing scene

Someone get this hospital better security so I don't have to be stayin up late feelin all sad writin this review

Such a crack up. I, too, would forego present-day USD-equivalent $60000 for Audrey Hepburn after such a great day.

The last tracking shot is iconic

Tells us when to stop pestering, rhymes with us,  humbles us without even exercising - we all need a friend like Fezzik fr

I had a next-door neighbor named Linda growing up who is probably the best next-door neighbor I'll ever have (the honorary grandma type), and sometimes when I was walking home from school on a sunny day she'd be outside gardening and we'd stop and talk for a while. And in this movie, all those scenes where the audio gets really quiet and the camera shows Alvin a little ways off talking with folks gave me a warm feeling like I was ing my neighbor Linda just before I gave her a wave or went up to her for a chat. Beautiful.

Nicholas Cage was great, but I also feel like he left everyone in the dust in this! (Except the pig. Masterclass from the pig.) 

What I loved most about this was the way my friend Jake explained it as being the anti-John Wick; a peaceful vengeance tale that really isn’t about vengeance at all. Unfortunately I would have LOVED a story about vengeance for a stolen pig. It’s just who I am.

Without a doubt the most twisted movie I've ever seen in my life

At times self-indulgent and on-the-nose, but 5 stars to Robert Pattinson.

This felt like Lynch’s version of elementary school “…and it was all a dream…” story ending

The architecture building at my university was designed in the brutalist style, and that's the building I spent most of my time in during college. There was an interesting duality to that building: sometimes the way the light hit would soften the concrete to make it sing, or the people inside glow against the gray of its walls; other times, those gray walls were just bleak and poorly insulated. There was a more metaphysical duality to it as well: at times, the building was a symbol of my collegiate hope for creativity and ambition; but sometimes it reminded me too much of endless nights stooped over my desk, of a studio review gone poorly, of a drawing or project I wasn't particularly proud of, or even simply of the emotional turmoil of being in one's early 20s.

But whereas that college architecture building lives on in my mind mostly as a collection of very fond memories, the metaphorical brutalism of this film errs towards the other side of that spectrum. The uncomfortable pessimism of the second half of the film casts a long shadow over the first half; and, while I recognize that this wasn't without intent from the director, I felt that it failed in doing so with any kind of real purpose. So, while I can ire the beautiful VistaVision and Brady's performance, I just don't think it'd be something I'd want to see again.

Lastly, pronouncing it "ee-pock" is for villains and nobody is going to change my mind about that.

Will undoubtedly go down as one of my fav films from 2024. The part where they all go around saying the perfect moment they imagined got me so good. Such a beautiful movie.

I'm going to say it. I liked Kevin Kline a lot in this. Yes I know he is annoying

Yzma is an S-tier villain

All the men in this are pretty bad and all the women are pretty good

This feels particularly like an ode to moms

The dream sequence 😩

*knows teacher is lying about competence and knowledge*
*selects him for the sake of pettiness to be the one to single-handedly fight monster and save helpless trapped student*

The shtick with the runners never gets old even though it's used 50 million times in this movie

*sighs* yet another titan taken down at the 1998 oscars by shakespeare in love

This had no right getting me so invested. What a zany idea. Wanted to watch the story continue for another hour

So French in all the right ways. Awesome

Animated penis getting a loooooot of screentime in this year's animated short nominees

Trying a bit too hard for my taste

So cute :')

• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Stand by Me
• 1917
• A Real Pain
• Superbad
• The Peanut Butter Falcon
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Challengers
• Wings
• All the President's Men

Perfect for the hot months

• Call Me by Your Name
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Stand by Me
• Top Gun: Maverick
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
• Sinners
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Challengers
• Triangle of Sadness
• The Peanut Butter Falcon

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Alien

• Manchester by the Sea
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Sing Sing
• Mulholland Drive
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• The Killing Fields
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Zootopia
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• City of God

• Aftersun
• Ex Machina
• Pride & Prejudice
• Mamma Mia!

lmao I really have not seen that many in this category

• Aftersun
• 1917
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Promising Young Woman
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
• Napoleon
• The Outrun
• Saltburn
• Wonka
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• The Dark Knight
• The Godfather
• The Revenant
• Anatomy of a Fall
• TÁR
• The Departed
• Dune: Part Two
• Oppenheimer
• Schindler's List

• Lady Bird
• Mulan
• Tarzan
• Priscilla
• Amélie
• Napoleon
• Elvis
• Barbie
• Coraline
• Philomena

• Minari
• Little Women
• Pride & Prejudice
• She's the Man
• The Iron Claw
• The Peanut Butter Falcon
• Hell or High Water
• My Neighbor Totoro
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• Waves

• Muppets from Space
• The Silver Brumby
• The Last Unicorn
• Quest for Camelot
• Winnie the Pooh & Christmas Too
• Secondhand Lions
• The Secret of NIMH
• A Little Princess
• Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
• An American Tail

• Challengers
• Alien
• Fight Club
• Dune: Part Two
• The Peanut Butter Falcon
• Predator
• Triangle of Sadness
• The English Patient
• Call Me by Your Name
• Sicario

• Fight Club
• The Truman Show
• May December
• The Peanut Butter Falcon
• Priscilla
• Galaxy Quest
• Mean Girls
• TÁR
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
• Amadeus

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Perfect films for autumn: characterized by their relaxed pacing, twinges of fun mixed with pangs of emotional weight. Or perhaps actiony in a dark, fun way.

• Aftersun
• Decision to Leave
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• I, Tonya
• Lady Bird
• Taxi Driver
• Triangle of Sadness
• TÁR
• Air

The perfect movies for the bleak winter, characterized either by their melancholy or their holiday cheeriness.

• The Banshees of Inisherin
• The Farewell
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Manchester by the Sea
• To Leslie

Perfect films for when winter starts to fade, all with tones of hope and vitality.

• Babe
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• Minari

Showdown 163

• Before Sunrise
• Little Women
• Call Me by Your Name
• Pride & Prejudice
• Drive
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Lost in Translation
• Good Will Hunting
• La La Land
• Baby Driver

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Babylon
• The Elephant Whisperers
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
• Avatar: The Way of Water
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
• Tell It Like a Woman
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Causeway

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.