Letterboxd — Your life in film

As a movie this is excellent, very successful, very brilliantly assembled particularly in the editing and dialogue. Although The cinematography is fairly pedestrian. The performances are just utterly superb across the board.

And as a demonstration of a corrupt court system being fantastically racist and unjust, it is tremendously good at that goal.

But it assumes a facility with the now legendary 68 convention riot and its obscure personalities that I simply don’t possess, even as a political junkie that…

Just superb to look at and brilliantly edited this is a film so richly steeped in a presumed knowledge of Hollywood history that Chaplin is an aside cameo and Thalberg isn’t even named in his own funeral.

The film is at its best in its grotesque and propulsive structure, teasing out the why Mank bites the hand that feeds him like tracking down the meaning of Rosebud. And then the film abruptly loses momentum once that is revealed descending into…

Just a stunning gem of a film with inventive wonderful animation and a unique style both in the real world and the great before. It’s consistently brilliantly funny and at times scathingly profound. It both romanticizes passion “your spark” and undercuts it. The cinematography and lighting is superb, and the editing is crisp and flawless and the performances are absolutely stellar. 

The beautiful emotional places the film reaches with 22 in the end are truly special.

If there’s one serious…

Delightfully grotesque and frequently bizarre, the sequel steers hard into the comedy of it all, constantly escalating the threat with literal genetic mutations by way of a mad scientist. It even breaks fourth wall Burning a hole through the film.  It’s still got a lot of cruelty and meanness to it but it’s softened by everything being demented. 

It also almost has a delicious satire on trump like Reagan era corporate monsters, but it totally pulls the punches there and…