A bit of a love letter to stunt work, Fall Guy becomes a little tedious as you feel its central idea becoming a compendium of gags rather than a full narrative, although…
Housekeeping for Beginners
A raucous, extremely queer, and very warm-hearted family melodrama. Set in Macedonia, and populated by a whole rainbow of immigrants from a confusing (at least for this poorly traveled cis-American-white male) assortment…
American Fiction
I loved this movie, and picked it as my favorite picture last year. It’s a very topical high-concept story, but it’s excellence is much broader, being a superbly written script directed so…
Perfect Days
Perfect Days is a beautiful and subtle film. Astonishing how they managed so much suspense in such a quiet film. Maybe it’s an old man thing (Wenders is 79) but this film…
Anatomy of a Fall
John Sayles’ Limbo had a maddeningly ambiguous ending, cutting to black as the marooned characters listened to an approaching engine obscured by fog. Was it the killers returning for them, or rescue?…
Zone of Interest
I saw Zone of Interest on Holocaust Remembrance Day. It starts with 2 minutes (I timed it!) of black screen underlaid with a sound montage of symphonic music, nature sounds, and strange…
Dune: Part 2
I saw Dune 2, 2 times. The book made a huge impact on me when I read it half a century ago. I hated Lynch’s version, and loved the documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune,…
The Beast
I saw The Beast. A Pigeon? WTF? There’s a dedication to “Gaspard” during the end “credits” (a projected QR code that takes you to a video of a conventional credit roll) that…
Civil War
I Saw Civil War. Interesting but fundamentally unrealistic, distracting from its potential impact. In an age where every notable moment becomes surrounded by folks fighting to aim their phones through gaps between…
Sasquatch Sunset
This is a very odd and charming film from the Zellner brothers who brought us the groundbreaking Red vs Blue machinima. It’s a small observational story without any dialogue per se (we…