“the world will have known we’ve done crimes!”

sort of a misunderstood masterpiece even among the cronenberg auteurists. so much of this, even with bruce wagner’s authorial stamp on it, rhymes pleasingly with cronenberg’s ouevre, from john cusack’s new age guru evoking THE BROOD’s psychoplasmics to the climactic sibling double suicide of DEAD RINGERS. i suppose people at the time dismissed the outdated hollywood satire but watching it from the vantage point of 2026, it’s pretty clear that cronenberg’s disinterested…

cinema of moral concern. reminded me a lot of my peers' short films when i was at NYU — humanistic, handheld, more interested in tastefully naturalistic performances than any sort of formalism. it's a movie entirely shorn of rough edges. zhao's animating sensibility seems to be a sort of apolitical curiosity, her camera framing her subjects in medium close ups that close off any suggestion that these people's pain and marginalization could be the result of larger social forces. it’s…

burnham never met a punchline he couldn’t thrice annotate to ensure us that he's as in on the joke as we are. maybe there's something clever about that but it mostly just made me wish for braver, more confrontational comedy. who needs all that self-reflexive scaffolding? flashes of brilliance in burnham's bubblegum pop formalism (certainly blows emerald fennell's out of the water!) and as with EIGHTH GRADE, he proves himself a talented mimic but that doesn't change the fact that…