denzel washington you absolute motherfucker. the sort of performance most people dream of, so good that he nearly upends the whole show by making his style of crooked cop seductive and appealing. ethan hawke is also excellent; i've always enjoyed his knack for low-key straight guys, and he gets some great moments like jumpscaring alonzo's gang. kind of just a normal street film that's elevated by some absolutely sterling performances.
feel like as the dust settles on tarantino as a phenomenon, everyone is slowly coming to the correct conclusion that this is his best movie. his most overwhelmingly sincere by a mile, occasionally shockingly lush and romantic for writtin directino's standards, this carries all his particular fascinations (one of his least feet-focused movies, thankfully) with so much less of the baggage of misogyny, perversion, and insincere puppeteering of previous styles actively murdered by americans importing them within their own culture.…
a smug fucking nothing of a movie.
(EDIT: I talk about TERFy vibes and have been told that there's a trans barbie in the movie; this actually makes me respect the movie and greta gerwig less, because ignorance would be a better explanation than pure blindness as to how obnoxiously cishet this movie is. thank you for your time)
i'm honestly less mad at what, excepting the most charitable readings of a movie that is fundamentally a toy commercial, are…
one of the most profoundly idiotic films I've seen. absolutely no excuse for this plot to be over 90 mins; the film ended about four different times.
the thing with gender-swapping the picture of dorian grey is that men in the 19th century do not in fact face the same pressures as modern women, let alone women in the entertainment industry; as such, the tale of personal vice that is genuinely cutting in Wilde's hands becomes blatant misogyny here. if…
