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I love when a movie feels like a puzzle, and it doesn’t matter how jagged or peculiar the pieces are in this one, they will all fit together like a glove. I’ll sit with this one for a long time wondering what it means and what it means to me. The exploration of jealousy festering for what you used to be is utterly brilliant and I’ve never seen something like it. 
As enjoyable as the main absurd concept is, this movie wins in the absurd details littered throughout. Like the dripping water. 

Gosh, Sebastian Stan is just so good.

This is Bodies Bodies Bodies but for tech bros. I liked.

Yea just as funny and subversive as I was hoping for. Fun to see with a group. A24 just makes good stuff and is the perfect production company to make an exploring-male-giddiness-from-platonic-connection movie from Tim Robinson.
Some weirdo danced by himself in the walkway during the end credits.

Think I’ve only seen one Final Destination movie in full but it’s not surprising that there’s a bunch of these. Formulaic but fun and seeing the pieces fall into place to orchestrate these deadly sequences is compelling.
I think the next one should be that death has a grudge on a few suicidal folks and repeatedly thwarts their attempts, forcing them to continue living.

I love McBride and Hill.

So heartfelt.

What a funny movie about pursuing a dream.

“It’s okay, Dad, you can cry, everyone cries.”

I’m sure my first review of this says the same thing, but a dysfunctional wrestling family drama set in 70s/80s Texas is a movie made for me. Such a great journey of success, tragedy, love, and reconciliation with all of that. Inconceivable that this won no awards. Efron at a career best.

This movie is so Italian. Plus, casual yet stylistic.

Big fan of this.

Not sure why I watched this. I guess cause I used to enjoy Impractical Jokers. I’ve already seen a few of these pranks. The story they wove between these pranks felt like it was trying to be funny by being offbeat, but it doesn’t really land. Bad Trip, now that’s a travel prank movie with an enjoyable story thread.

Watched with Maximo. I love Trey Parker and Matt Stone, but they look like their names should be switched.

Didn’t know that Germans did Pearl Harbor. Gets super absurd near the end, even more than the start, which is pretty absurd. Absurdity rules.

Best day ever #drip

Yea I loved this. Some of the most enjoyable performances I’ve seen in a while. The script is a lock, enough to make me want to read the source material. Pattinson’s vocal performance in this blows my mind.

Was never really into South Park but I’ve seen some episodes in the past couple years and it’s grown on me. They get away with quite a bit. Like murderous mascots of popular cereal brands experiencing violent deaths.

Interesting portrayal from Sebastian Stan, it’s not overtly Trump (although the mannerisms grow and grow), but the idiosyncrasies are nailed down pretty damn well. No one will ever beat Christian Bale as Dick Cheney in of accuracy in a biopic portrayal. But I liked seeing the monster get made. Lost some portrayal credibility when he read aloud from a book. 

How does Jeremy Strong do that? He completely transforms. Especially just after being a lead on one of the most popular television shows ever made. Can’t wait for his HBO directed feature.

Always a good watch. Makes the skin crawl.

Half watched this but fell asleep a little bit. Movies alright.

Crazy how monkeys are adept enough to make a documentary about themselves.

Forever a movie that turns my sensitivity up to 11. Everything feels perfectly tailored to bring this broken group of characters together in the most dysfunctional circumstances possible. There’s three moments in the last 30 minutes that make me weep with every color on the rainbow.

This always floors me. There’s great genius in the stupidity levels this movie is able to successfully accomplish. Maximo somewhat guessed the twist right before it was revealed and that was cool.

Showing Maximo movies that I like part 2? 3?

This movie is always mundane enough to drive me delirious with laughter.

I can camouflage perfectly to various environments because I decorate the cakes at the bakery I work at back home.

Vampires playing baseball should be an HBO series.

There were some parts I missed. Funnier than I anticipated.

The hobbits are so itsy bitsy teeny tiny but boy they got some heart

Yea that’ll do it

What a movie.

Haven’t seen the first two. Grandparents wanted a Christmas visit to the movies. Felt like Keanu’s voice performance wasn’t as good as I’d expect.

Always a good watch in the final days of the year. Big fan of the plot mostly taking place in the cabin, could be a very good play. Walton Goggins is stupidly talented. Could watch him in anything.

I really like this movie. I it was marketed as more of a comedy than it is. While it’s very funny, the inner-exploration of one’s place in the world is extremely poignant.

Didn’t expect to enjoy this as much as I did. Pretty good.

Best part about Gremlins is the actors knowing they’re dealing with advanced animatronics meanwhile the dog is like what the hell is going on

Sean Astin had chops since birth

Just wait till these characters grow up and watch Oppenheimer.

I think the musical number I liked would’ve been good if it was the only musical number in the film.

Sort of an insanely predictable ending.

Fell asleep to this after the double feature. Charlie Brown is like a really good dude.

2/2 of a weird double feature

Up there with Rango in my category of animated family movies about an animal going through something that speaks deeply to the human experience.

1/2 of a weird double feature

deeply unsettling but once you get to the fifth incident it’s pretty funny. 
“Can I- can I see some ID?”
“I come in here every week..?”

Few Octobers ago I put this movie on for a group looking for something fucked up, they did not make it past the family scene and I ruined movie night.

Distracting the masses with food and carnivals is basically what we still do but instead of food it’s instagram reels and instead of carnivals it’s more instagram reels. Probably would rate this a 5/5 had I watched it all in one go but had to split the viewing into two consecutive days.

Perfect movie. Always has been. Always will be.

Wicked was one of the first musicals I ever saw. Magic that is well done is better onstage than onscreen. Bowen Yang makes anything he’s in more fun.

One of those movies I had ed in middle school that I rewatched over and over and over. Zach Galifianakis is so good in this movie. His attempts to mimic the look/behavior of Bradley Cooper’s character are very funny. 

“If we’re sharing beds, I call bunking with Phil. Is that cool?”

You don’t learn about who anyone is, but rather what they are. Everyone is animalistic, playing a role that they think is necessary to survive. And Ani struggles to survive most of all. 

Besides a couple moments that leaned into a helplessness of Mikey Madison’s character that I could’ve done without, Baker has done it again. Meaning he’s made a deeply unsettling movie that I enjoy for its ability to portray deeply disturbed people in deeply disturbing scenarios. Mikey Madison as Ani was electric. Her attempt to pursue a more comfortable life through the resources of Vanya is wildly compelling, and the despair that she endures in dealing with his immaturity is heartbreaking. 

Troubled by the final moments. I love films where there's a clear loss of self in the main character by the end compared to the beginning. But I think there may have been better ways to display this within Ani. I don't know. Her resorting to something that initially gave her agency, even though she doesn't particularly want to and it failing to provide that same comfort in the end, is a theme l appreciate and actually really like. But execution on that theme felt like too simple a choice for this story. Instead of that ending, I might’ve appreciated seeing her back in the green room, getting ready in the same club as the start of this odyssey (maybe a different club- to suggest a change that ultimately isn’t progress), but with that deadness in the eyes she bears at the end of the film. 
Poignant, though. Cutting to credits on that feeling of loss. And on pure aesthetics of the shot, the continuous buildup of snow on the windows of the car was something I kept looking towards. A detail I appreciated. Beautiful and haunting.

There’s like a couple jokes that fall flat but otherwise I watch this and am wheezing from start to finish. First movie I watching as a kid. 

“Honey, I love you.”
“What does that have to do with anything?”

This was one of those movies from childhood that I never watched. Which is a bummer cause I woulda loved this. Movies are so fun sometimes.

I seeing this in theaters with my dad and losing my mind.
I have got to stop watching movies I’ve seen a million times. I used to have taste.

If the visuals weren't so fantastic I would complain about the runtime.

incomplete list. and if a decade memory serves, the order is in the correct order for most recent to earliest

• Babygirl
• Wicked
• Anora
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• Dazed and Confused
• The Deer Hunter
• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
• The Holdovers
• Bottoms
• Barbie

...plus 99 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Evil Dead
• Death Proof
• In the Mood for Love
• Se7en
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Metropolis
• Solaris
• The Long Goodbye
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Shutter Island

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Gladiator
• The Godfather Part II
• The Last Temptation of Christ
• The Pianist
• Dead Poets Society
• Drive
• Life of Brian
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
• Annihilation
• Tenet

...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Rome, Open City
• La Dolce Vita
• Divorce Italian Style
• Life Is Beautiful
• The Son's Room
• Gomorrah
• Il Divo
• I Can Quit Whenever I Want
• Fire at Sea

cause they’re long or not casual views

• Yi Yi
• Seven Samurai
• The Godfather Part II
• Stalker
• Satantango
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The Pianist
• Once Upon a Time in America
• An Elephant Sitting Still
• Lawrence of Arabia

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.