• You Hurt My Feelings

    You Hurt My Feelings

    ★★★★

    as a person of New School adjunct faculty experience—

  • Deseret

    Deseret

    ★★★★

    possession movie — scary & beautiful; I fell asleep three times but that’s on me, not him.

  • Fast X

    Fast X

    ½

    😀

  • The Purge

    The Purge

    ★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    immature and often repulsive, but not without its bizarre quirks, say, for instance, one of the last bizarre examples of literal "Catholic school girl," like in knee socks the whole movie and everything. maybe the most 2013 thing of all time. I can't really defend it, but I can also reflect with cynical glee what a great pitch treatment this was in 2010. Hawke lends a nice earnestness (when doesn't he) but is undone by the Colin Jost ass villain,…

  • Book Club: The Next Chapter

    Book Club: The Next Chapter

    ★★★★

    the Weerasethakul retrospective to not watching a movie for two weeks to giving Book Club 2 four stars pipeline

  • Syndromes and a Century

    Syndromes and a Century

    ★★★★½

    it’s crazy what a big leaf does to the beauty of a shot

  • The Last Days of Disco

    The Last Days of Disco

    ★★★★

    “you do have a gay mouth…”

  • Barcelona

    Barcelona

    ★★★★

    omg yay so silly just wall-to-wall silliness

  • Cemetery of Splendor

    Cemetery of Splendor

    ★★★★

    lost track of what was movie sound and what was ambient theater sound; fell asleep for a few too, as I’m sure you know

  • Gull

    Gull

    ★★★★

    excruciating. kept thinking about Two Days, One Night

  • The Daytrippers

    The Daytrippers

    ★★★★

    first ever movie to make me sympathize with a blonde person minus, like, A Hidden Life

  • Holiday

    Holiday

    ★★★★

    "we're all grand at seventeen!"