Letterboxd — Your life in film

This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far

Relentless. If you have to sum up Parabellum in one word, it's that. It's not just that in its filmmaking but in the narrative itself. John is clearly tired. One of the best aspects about this series is that while John of course plows through countless nameless thugs, he's not doing it like a superhero. Each kill requires effort, precision, and a little bit…

It deeply upsets me that the Oscars don't have a category for choreography.

There's a sense of wide-eyed wonder that overcomes me in certain moviegoing experiences that makes me feel the way I imagine everybody on this website felt when they first saw a spectacle like Star Wars as a child. As soon as that feeling hits me, all sense of critical objectivity goes out the window. I don't care to think about any lifeless, trope-ridden dialogue or over-explicit sequel…

WAVES is a lyrically complicated look at teenage romance built around a singular disaster, one that bleakly spirals outward and devastates everyone closest to the epicenter. The grief piles up high and packs a sharp wallop to the gut, as it sets up a difficult drama around the ways our families support and fail us simultaneously. 

Families matter to Shults. Families are the building blocks of society, however imperfect, that provide the conflict and solution on which these characters hang…

I totally understand why so many people hate this with a passion: it's a tonal and structural mess, the pacing is all over the place, the dialogue is really hammy at times, it's an assault to the senses with its non-stop frenetic camerawork and blaring soundtrack.

But, I think it's honestly kinda fitting that this is such a beautiful mess. As someone who's experiencing a similar pressure from everywhere around as Tyler does, life can be just a total mess…