Letterboxd — Your life in film

Really loved the first two thirds. Like, really loved. A hybrid of incredible tension and nightmare comedy and acidic commentary and genuine awe. And the three central set pieces are just phenomenal — the Gordy attack, leading into the mass abduction, leading into the blood rain. 

But the moment they come back to the ranch and start scheming to get the big shot after 40 people have been digested directly over them, I lost the emotional thread. The ideas are…

Really cool! There’s stretches of amazing cinema in it, and stretches that are so straight ahead narratively you wonder why it couldn't have been a tight 100 mins.

On its own terms as a giant scale action movie, it's rad — but even on those terms, I find myself being harder on it than something like THE (admittedly dopey) BATMAN, which I think is basically achieving everything it sets out to... despite its bloat and various absurdities.
This one comparatively…

A warm tribute to a kind of relationship I feel like lots of us have stuffed way in the back of a mental drawer: the ill-advised crush turned briefly, oddly, achingly mutual, transmuted not into a romantic relationship but into an ambiguous, charged entanglement.

Alana's reluctant seduction by Gary in the first few scenes strikes me as incredibly psychologically realistic. She outlines a boundary upfront and continues verbally repeating it, but by her actions edges toward it out of curiosity.…