there is always going to be something compelling to me about a flawed, sometimes downright awful main character.

billy brown isn't a good person, nobody watched this and wanted to be his friend, or anything more than that. he's rude, he's weird, and he's so far removed from being a traditional protagonist that he had me hooked from minute one.

i'm usually the first one to point out misogyny in a film, and how female characters also deserve a backstory,…

How on earth this film did not receive ANY oscar nods in regards to the acting, I will never understand. This is a deeply uncomfortable watch, and one of the best I've seen in a long while.

Charles Melton in particular, who I've only ever seen in Riverdale, absolutely blew me away. His ability to physically manifest being stuck at the age in which your trauma was inflicted - the nervous hands, the constant tension in his shoulders - was…

There was definitely a lot of running, I’ll give them that, this film just never seemed to be going anywhere. 

Glenn Powell’s performance was a highlight, and despite the odd nature of the script, I thought he managed a genuinely decent performance. I like him as an actor, and I think he has big things in his future, but there’s not much more he could’ve done with this film, and I think it’ll ultimately go down as a mid-point in…