The inclusion of Fred Durst and Phoebe Bridgers is a great representation of the meshing of opposing genres and themes in this film. But you know what? Coming of age often feels like a horror movie and I'm not quite sure I've ever seen it portrayed so well.
The idea of feeling like you don't belong in your own body is both a universal feeling on the broad sense and also a very specifically enhanced feeling for some. Great films…
Was (slightly) concerned that my initial opinion was influenced by the hype surrounding opening weekend. Now having two weeks to process it and see it again, I’m ready to declare this as a masterpiece.
Without going into a full deep dive of everything I love about it, I think there are two elements working perfectly together. The combination of a large scale epic blockbuster with a grounded nuanced plot.
So many blockbusters of the past few years feel like they…
It makes me so happy to see that so few people on this app have watched this movie.
This is my favorite movie ever. I think it’s perfect.
The score is beautiful (this was my first time noticing the rendition of “oh my darling clementine”), the editing is creative and perfectly matches the tone and the story, and the script is flawless and easy to see why it won the Oscar.
In fact, the script is so perfect in it’s delivery of information and timeline of plot events. I’m always blown away how it finds the exact right…
