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Every other actor playing Tom Ripley: I think I'll play him as chameleonic sociopath.

Dennis Hopper: I see him as a sort of freakazoid cowboy?

When action isn't happening this is the dumbest movie of the year, and when action is happening, that doesn't matter.

By far the best movie of the 2020s in which characters sing "Wild Mountain Thyme."

The tragedy of having to perform your humanity in front of cameras over and over and over again.

Lotta crowdwork in the Emerald City theater scene.

A foundational text for being in your mid 30s and depressed.

An artifact of a vanished epoch. "I am Chevymandias, look on my works ye mighty and despair."

Show the dining car scene to anyone who thinks the Fifties were sexless.

If I was a hunky Swedish art professional, I would simply apologize to the child I'd accidentally gotten in trouble.

Cowardice as social contagion, poisoning every relationship comes across.

Directors will make a movie about a guy torn between an unobtainable blonde and a down-to-earth brunette, and then cast, like, the most beautiful woman you've ever seen as the brunette.

Watched on Tuesday May 3, 2022.

See what happens when you hire an actual director?

Judging by this movie, the decline of Canadian manufacturing can be explained by the fact that literally everything they make explodes.

A perfectly cute and harmless movie and I find it hilarious that this is the most successful independent film of all time.

Watched on Thursday April 7, 2022.

A-ha ha, a-ha ha.

The closest a movie can get to feeling like a video game.

I'm sure I missed some of the specific political context, but the "kill the limey bastards" part was clear enough.

Funnier than I ed - some beats almost could have come out of a Wes Anderson film.

Hot young Christopher Guest AND hot young Bob Balaban?

Watched on Thursday February 17, 2022.

What a chin.

Watched on Wednesday March 2, 2022.

Needed a little bit more - more worldbuilding, more songs, more perfidious lesbians.

An absolute delight. No notes.

A live-action Looney Tunes, with a gag batting average to rival a classic Community episode. Here's hoping their emotional palette will one day show as much imagination as their plot setups.

Some royal projects give you a peek behind the curtain. This is a 2-hour study of the curtain.

A Sundance movie with actual visual sensibility!

Manic Pixie Dream Boy motherfucker

upward mobility?

A big, squishy therapy session of a movie.

Accents: The Movie. Roma comparisons are inescapable but this is less auteur-y, more accessible. Good craic.

Is it more cheesy or more corny? Who cares. Everyone understood the assignment.

The secret screening turns out to be ... a violent children-in-peril thriller? I can't confirm this was Telluride trolling its base, but it sure seems like it.

Watched on Wednesday September 1, 2021.

This review may contain spoilers.

The ugly stepchild of the Gillian Flynn cinematic universe, Dark Places is the definition of “a lot going on.” Start with Charlize Theron as the grown-up survivor of a family massacre who gets mixed up with a club of true-crime enthusiasts convinced that her brother, who was convicted on her testimony, is innocent. Throw in Satanic panic, secret babies, teenage murderers, and a serial killer who makes his victims sign permission slips. Once a ing character is revealed to have a history as a teenage arsonist, it’s clear there may indeed be such a thing as too much specificity. Maybe it played better on the page?

Surprisingly similar to Trial of the Chicago 7 on the script level, but McQueen's roving camera grounds it in everyday pleasure and pain.

Off-kilter, nihilistic Western in which our young hero slowly learns he's a ing character in someone else's story. Plus, Ben Mendelsohn shows up in a gigantic fur coat.

Exactly what it says on the tin --- Sorkin being Sorkin in a courtroom drama about Sixties radicals. But at least he acknowledges that daddy won't save us this time.

The Star Wars prequels reborn as an Australian crime thriller.

Plenty of of poignant moments as Burt Reynolds' barely-disguised alter ego reflects on his decades in the movie business. But you have to sit through a lot of business with Ariel Winter to get there.

A feature-length testament to the male ego. That nobody saw this movie is the only reason it didn't inspire a wave of violent reprisals against MFA programs.

A kitchen-sink drama that feels like a throwback to the days when every movie was about a working-class Brooklyn guy with a name.

As beautiful and incomprehensible as a perfume commercial.

A loathsome podcaster gets turned into a walrus as spiritual comeuppance for insulting Canada. Self-aware shlock that's about 73 percent as funny as it thinks it is.

An attempt at an Asian-American Goodfellas, with a solid pedigree --- based on a New Yorker story, directed by the guy who made Infernal Affairs, produced by Martin Scorsese --- that belies the fact that it's a flat, cliche-ridden drag.

Appalachian Gothic --- unspeakable brutality in unspeakable accents. But is there any actual point?