Jake Wichansky

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Bottoms 2023

Watched 20 Sep 2022

The whole film is amazing, but there’s a 45ish-minute chunk in the middle that is probably the most laughter I’ve ever heard from an audience within that amount of time. The best comedy I’ve seen in years. Masterpiece.
Original Cast Album: Company 1970

★★★★ Rewatched 11 Mar 2023

[with Stephen Sondheim’s commentary for Criterion]
I could listen to this man talk forever. He has such a clear and detailed way of explaining things and talking about his own work. And he’s just, like, the best.

An Oversimplification of Her Beauty 2012

★★★ Watched 30 Sep 2019 1

I don't know how to rate this. If I were to judge it based on the story, how well it is executed, and how much I responded to it emotionally, I'd give this a fairly low rating. But, as an incredibly interesting portrait of its director (and, by extension, the many people who I'm sure share a similar mindset with him), this film is really engaging. Is this something I can credit the film with? I am interested in it…
Zack Snyder's Justice League 2021

★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2021

The last 10 minutes of this are terrible. A lot of stuff before that is surprisingly silly and fun. Almost every line of dialogue is very bad. This has more heart than any of the other Snyder movies I’ve seen (which admittedly isn’t saying much). Superman has the funniest line I’ve heard since Tenet’s “Including my son.” I would gladly spend more time with these characters. I hope I never see Jared Leto’s Joker again. My favorite Zack Snyder movie.