Inde Navarretteβ¦girl youβre about to blow the fuck up. This was even better on a second watch. The simple premise and slow burn nature of how everything unfolds is just brilliantly executed. One of the better horror releases of the year.
Inde Navarretteβ¦girl youβre about to blow the fuck up. This was even better on a second watch. The simple premise and slow burn nature of how everything unfolds is just brilliantly executed. One of the better horror releases of the year.
Went in completely blind which made for a shockingly memorable theatergoing experience. ArrestingΒ from its first frame to its last, backed by an immaculate sound design, stunning cinematography and a hypnotic techno soundtrack, forcing you to surrender to your senses and immerse yourself in its world. I love this notion of desperation to find heaven and instead finding complete and utter hell. Bleak, relentless and nihilistic, almost to a fault butΒ thatβs precisely the point. Like a sister film to Climax,Β and clearβ¦
A sequel with a massive cast upgrade yet its characters are so two-dimensional. TheΒ emotional storyline with the sister feels forced and didnβt work for me. Expected this to take bigger creative swings but ultimately plays it too safe and feels like a retread of the original when I wanted it to go completely off the rails.
One Battle After Another is this yearβs The Brutalist: a film that posits itself as being politically intellectual yet is hypocritical in almost every conceivable way, cosplaying as revolution in the process. To see this getting rave reviews across the board is disturbing.
Using the oppression of immigrants as a backdrop for cartoonish spectacle, in a nation undergoing political unrest and experiencing ICE raids on a daily basis, is incredibly distasteful. Thereβs an eroticism of racial conflict and sensationalism ofβ¦
Part whodunnit part courtroom drama, Anatomy of a Fall is a voyeuristic deep dive into a troubled marriage that slowly begins to unravel before avalanching out of control.Β
The courtroom scenes and accompanying dialogue were riveting, giving the audience a front row seat to a relentless match of Wimbledon.Β What I found the most interesting was the commentary on Sandraβs bisexuality, in which the prosecutor uses to weaponize his case against her. This conveys the notion that bisexuality is still veryβ¦