Agreed. It would be perfect at under two hours. The movie stretches out its story to an interminable length despite brilliant sequences.

The film literally has them not obtaining intel after hours of torture, then finally covering ground once they start treating him like a human (feeding him, giving him a cigarette, and talking to him calmly, unchained in the daylight).

It definitely looks better than most romcoms of the era with their “turn every light on” aesthetic. The look of 500 is diminished for me because it looks like every other film around that time. Hollywood was just getting into digital color grading and cranking up skin tones to Donald Trump levels. I don’t really miss…

Grillo is great in The Grey and Warrior, so maybe check him out after 2011.

It felt like scenes had been cut. Haven’t heard a VV shoutout in ages. Brings back memories of the time in my life when I wasn’t having sex. Hmm what’s the opposite of nostalgia?

It seriously goes from realism to porn in one cut. I couldn’t believe it.  

True but this movie was building to something special between these two. It was affording it the time to show what young love looks like.

“Come for the sensual, slow examination of these two women. Stay for the fucking!” —high minded film critic

‘Blue is the Warmest Color’ showed some true filmmaking craft and empathy. It also made the biggest blunder I can recall in recent memory. The film is a sensual and slow examination of these two women, down to how they eat, flirt, and discover each other. So when it comes time for our main character Adele’s first…

I’m kinda with you. Phoenix, despite it’s great premise, fine acting, and handsome look, felt like it was trying to get by on the implication of its psychology/philosophy rather than actually exploring its psychology/philosophy. The movie ends just as it seems to get to the exploration part. I still gave it a…

I liked Hereditary a lot when I saw it in theaters though It definitely didn’t go where I had wanted. I purchased it on Christmas and watched it two more times with two different friends. Wow I love it now. The movie improves so much when you aren’t trying to out think it. There’s so many little details and so much…

‘The Duke of Burgundy’ was such a slog. I watched it because avclub raved and it was even on David Erlich’s famous top 25 video. But literally every time I put it on, I started dozing off and not just because it’s basically ASMR: The Movie. It’s two stretched out hours of a semi interesting role play/role reversal…

Thor was my MVP for the movie. Amazing how he went from kind of useless in the first Avengers to the one I was rooting for most in Infinity War. 

I’ve never felt ill during a movie but the realism of that moment and the all too true reaction of the brother made me dizzy. It was like a bad nightmare you’re trapped in but without the benefit of knowing you’ll wake up. 

It actually does feel similar to me. I rewatched Sicario, and I can see how Brolin’s character makes a kind of sense. It’s just that the movie clearly doesn’t condone what he’s doing. I don’t think his and Del Toro’s characters change too drastically in the sequel.

I’d say RPO’s biggest crime is being totally forgettable. It’s the definition of a “oh, that’s neat” movie where you might smile and nod then go about your day. 

Can I finally say how much I loathe David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? What an uninvolving, sluggish, and ugly dirge of a “pulp” thriller that was. Fincher’s dynamism couldn’t even save it, which led me to the conclusion that the skeleton of the story is just not very good. It’s easily Fincher’s worst…

I didn’t expect this to be on the list but one of my favorite bits was Jon Glaser as the shofar player, who had such classic albums as “So Close Shofar” and his collection of sex jams, “Night Blower.”

Hot take: I like Man of Steel as a batshit spectacle. It’s CGI weirdly feels tactile in a way Justice League didn’t (though not realistic). The design of the whole movie is like a scifi paperback. And I think the Ultimate Edition of BvS is a compelling, I-can’t-believe-they-made-this type of big budget movie. There’s…

I’ve always like the idea of a Lex Luthor who resents the fact that he isn’t a God and is trying to do everything humanly possible to become one. He’s the richest man on Earth, one of the smartest, and he’s in peak physical condition. A better way that Eisenberg’s would’ve worked is if they played into his physical…