My Criterion Collection
Spine #300
I was pretty young when I watched this and I remember barely any of it connecting with me. I’ve always been a consistent fan of his current work (Fantastic Mr. Fox onward), but of his earlier work, Rushmore was really the only one that I loved. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is a film I’ve always wanted to rewatch out of curiosity that I’d like it more when I was older. I’m glad I…
Every time I see that a new M. Night film is in the pipeline, I get absolutely ecstatic. You really can’t lose: you either get a film that’s surprisingly good or a film that is an absolute comedy. For me, there’s absolutely no reason to be hesitant about a film by him. In ways, Old lands right in the middle.
For the first act, I was laughing and enjoying myself immensely: the acting drastically ranged, the writing was super stilted…
After the abhorrent and horrifically boring Final Frontier, I was really hoping The Undiscovered Country would bring things back in focus and end the original series in a satisfying way and it mostly did, but in not in ways I expected.
This is leaps better than the previous film and it’s so interesting that the sixth film in this franchise wasn’t only one of the absolute best, but was a film heavily leading on space politics, court…
After Voyage Home, being my favorite of the series so far, I was honestly very excited to see where the series went and it genuinely went absolutely nowhere. The Final Frontier, first and only film in the franchise directed by Shatner, is an incredibly boring, uneventful, horribly edited, ridiculous film with next to none of the charm that made IV so watchable or even the rest of the series for that matter.
The first 30 minutes is…
*me calmly listening to the score, when all of a sudden, Daveed Diggs starts rapping* well, it would appear that this film is perfect.
I’ve had a lukewarm feeling of Pixar within the last couple years. Not that they’ve made much of anything I would constitute as bad, it’s just that nothing from of recent memory has made me genuinely feel that they’re making something special like they used to; it’s all felt incredibly commercial. With the exception of Coco,…
