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Hadn’t seen in at least 20 years. After this time I could watch it every day and be happy.

Saw it with a crowd, brought the house down.

Loads of fun. Helluva cast. Stone doing a real character, award earned. Ruffalo doing amazing work as well.

What a beautiful movie. What a life I’d love to live.

Where is Felicity Jones’ Oscar for this?

Obviously.

Cheddar Goblin 5 stars.

I think they should have had double the budget, at times it felt like TV and not movies in scale and production quality. Loved the performances, Viola Davis never more powerful.

I don’t know that I wanted to be with these garbage dudes for a whole movie.

Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

A great and tragic ‘one last time’ movie. Incredible score, love that Hoskins. Young hot Brosnan must be seen to be believed.

A fun time at the movies! Rian Johnson has a lot in common with Soderbergh—Black Bag done by either would be very similar. See also Fincher, for that matter. Complimentary to all.

Call me a prude but I don’t need to think about how gross a room smells for 90 minutes. Filmmaking good, wondering if some more could have been done for the script.

What a picture.

Charming and fun! Love the bizarre costumes and production design. Really excellent ing cast especially Marlee Matlin.

Wonderful performances in a very incomprehensible movie. Extra half a star for all the sweat.

Bringing Czerny back adds a star.

I was more grossed out by how grimy everything was than the body horror. Kristen Stewart playing a real character was fun. The gurgling sounds from Viggo were also gross. Wash your hands!

Very very very funny. It’s in the neighborhood of The Big Lebowski, with the procedural bones of a mystery or thriller. Such tension! I felt the stakes as silly as that sounds. Such a good cast. If Krasinski had only done this that would be just fine by me.

What a beautiful time I had thinking about my own weird childhood in similar environs (Western New York) watching this. So many of these scenes could have happened to me, the movie felt like a forgotten memory ed. The 90s period films are upon us, and this is the best of them I’ve seen. Everything felt correct but not screaming at me. Incredible cast and performances as well.

The cast did what they were told, which was very, very, very dumb and had almost no discernible internal logic. I liked the better version of this movie which is the masterpiece Death Becomes Her. Also, 2:21 running time for a very simple horror premise? Get the fuck out of here.

Very fun watch! It’s not up to the level of Seven/Silence Of The Lambs, which it resembles in many ways. ing cast performances make it worth the watch though. Fun to see Cage doing a full on monster character with prosthetics and all. I could do without all the gray/muted/drab look of horror movies and thrillers. I get it, it’s gritty, but also it’s boring!

I love this movie with all my heart, but I just want everyone to know it is never ever necessary to stick your whole arm into an overflowing toilet to unclog it. Never.

My concerns do not align with Mr. Aster’s

What a beautiful beautiful beautiful movie.

Haynes did it again. No misses in his catalogue.

Excellent filmmaking. I think maybe Smith could have done less of an impression of Ali.

Acting and sound design stand out. Very creepy and I totally misread what the final conflict would be. Had a great time!

This was very bad. Billy Zane’s wig was not holding up its end.

Many cows

I think something got lost somewhere.

Not much of a story but fun in most other ways.

Young scary Turturro.

I saw it five times in the theater, so my opinion should not count (insanity) but this is the best film of the year and could be most years.

Watched on Friday October 27, 2023.

If I ever have the desire to see anything even sort of like this I’m doing Ripley instead.

Cried my dang eyes out!

Top tier Mann.

A master craftsman. I have some quibbles about the script and the ending but it was a blast to take in. Tim Heidecker was perfection in casting. Elizabeth Moss playing against type was fun!

Watched on Thursday December 1, 2022.

Watched on Friday December 2, 2022.

Watched on Friday December 2, 2022.

Griffin Newman adds a full star for me. A pleasant fun and funny family movie, with a lot of Griff! See it!

Tár fucking rules. It's full of the kind of jokes that are so dry part of why they are so funny is you realizing they are intended as such.
A doctor tosses off “An adjustment might help, you’re somewhat crooked” so fast and while he's turning away from her. You might miss it, but if you don't it dawns on you that old Todd is sneaking one in there while the movie speeds over you. I was maybe most impressed by how good first time actress and prodigious cellist Sophie Kauer is in dramatic scenes where she must hold her own against CATE MUFUCKIN BLANCHETT. The end is about as satisfying as anything I've ever seen.

Oh! - Almost forgot to talk about what Blanchett is doing in this movie. The wrong actor might have given a performance as a one-note villain. The thing about this kind of evil is it's blanket of banality. She's just making little decisions for expediency her whole life, and when the shit starts to happen she does all the wrong things to try and protect herself, her status quo, her lifestyle, her power. Tár is not a classic sociopath. She has feelings, they can be hurt. She experiences some kind of love and connection to others. She is nothing but wonderful to her step-daughter. She helps her neighbor even though she could have walked away with little consequence. She is genuinely haunted by the worst of her actions. Blanchett has to play all of that regular person stuff and ALSO construct on top of that the character Lydia Tár that Linda Tarr invented, the public persona that sits on top like a mask. Sometimes we see a sliver of humanity when Tár is alone, trapped in cell she built for herself. Blanchett gives us every color on the wheel. You only understand the depth of the bottom through counting all the rungs you had to climb down to get there.

Todd Field stacked the deck with the cast, the production designer (who brings to life these oppressive, claustrophobic brutalist Berlin living and work spaces) Marco Bittner Rosser who did one of my favs Only Lovers Left Alive, the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, etc...and his writing and direction have the same foreboding intensity of his previous two films. Can't he do one of these a year?

Watched on Saturday October 29, 2022.

This feels like a Dreamworks movie. What happened to Pixar? I can't put my finger on what is making this one not-so-special, but it really couldn't hold my interest the way I wanted it to. I will say, I liked the parts not on Earth better than the parts on Earth.

There's nothing not to like about this movie. Travolta's best performance perhaps? I also loved the shades of paranoia a la The Conversation. All of the long beautiful sequences of audio listening/analog editing make this audio-obsessed viewer very happy. I wish DePalma had another one like this in the hopper.

I'm here for the body horror, but I'm skeeved out by the sex-shaming, keep-the-baby-even-if-it-kills-you message. The truly lovely K-Stu and R-Pats look like they are trying to claw their way out of this franchise. Who could blame them!

Gotta love these pre-disco vamps and the lack of phones ringing.

I saw Joe Dirt after 20 years of flat-out avoiding it. Only Ben Hosley could entice me. That said, better than I thought. Many points off for the sheer amount of homophobia and the appearance of Kid Rock.