It’s weird that MacLaren still hasn’t directed a film.

What I found interesting is that we really didn’t see all that much abuse of power from her. The film starts after whatever happened between her & Krista, the viral video of her clearly misrepresents the truth (even if she wasn’t very nice in saying the student shouldn’t want to be judged based on looks rather than…

I don’t think the idea is that the place is culturally inferior to Berlin or NYC. But Lydia isn’t conducting the most prestigious orchestra in her new country, she’s wearing an earpiece for a pre-recorded tempo and playing for an audience that doesn’t care about her.

Neither deserved Best Picture, but I thought Gerwig’s attempt to distinguish her version from earlier Little Women adaptations via messing with the timeline made it worse.

Boring is not a “non-criticism”, but it is the case that more effort could be put into such a critique.

There’s an element of truth to that charge, but hopefully the large quantity of existing material will mean less space for inventing such monologues.

I’ve complained before about him taking source material that worked perfectly for standard-length feature films (a format he’s done good work in) and then warping it into multi-episode miniseries, so I’m glad to see he’s now applying serialization to the right material. Plus, this means no reason to watch that Dark…

Why does the link for A Wounded Fawn go to a generic info page rather than an AVC review?

Men was Alex Garland veering too far to one end of the “thinking” vs “feeling” axis, but it was still better than We’re All Going to the World’s Fair.

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is one of the more overrated movies I’ve seen in a while. The same time would be better spent watching amateur youtube videos.

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Probably the best episode of that season, but it’s a TV episode rather than a film.

Surprised how low Wonka is on this list. Mr. Fox might be Wes Anderson’s best movie, but it’s not as good as that.

Sorry, but I don’t think any space-themed 50s set film with a desert town setting can compete with “The Vast of Night”.

That character/real person was, but since he didn’t write the film I didn’t count that as a “voice”.

Pi blew me away when I saw it as a youngster.

If voters are going to nominate this year’s box office leader (to date) for all the top awards, there’s no way they can leave out its leading man and driving force.

Armageddon Time wasn’t nearly as good as The Fabelmans, but I don’t think the thing it was missing was the magic of the movies (although I read in an interview with James Gray that the actual things he tried to steal were Star Trek blueprints, changed to a computer in the film).

For Collodi fans, the perfect Pinocchio adaptation remains elusive.

He had already made a good movie with his first one. It’s his English language films that fall short.