What can be said about this film that hasn't been already? In my opinion, this is about as close to perfect as filmmaking can get, from the screenplay, in which there are so many "payoffs" from the first half to the second, to the fabulous score by Alan Silvestri, to the great performances across the board. Michael J Fox was never more fun, watchable, and charismatic. Crispin Glover was put to great use in this film and was sadly never…
Favorite films
Recent activity
AllPinned reviews
More-
-
Groundhog Day 1993
When I was a kid, this was one of the first movies in which I realized the brilliance of the filmmaking, from writing to directing, in a film that on the surface seems like a standard studio comedy from the early 90s. I absolutely adore this film and am always glad that it finally gets the recognition it deserves from audiences of all kinds.
Watch it. Watch it again. Watch it again. Watch it again.
Repeat.
Recent reviews
More-
A Lion Is in the Streets 1953
A pure overblown Cagney performance at the center doesn’t save this from being a bit convoluted and from falling apart at its conclusion; however, this still has some interesting moments and ideas scattered throughout, such as the cotton weighing scene and the opening of the film where Hank meets Verity.
-
Make Mine Music 1946
Like Melody Time, this is uneven due to its anthology nature, but there are some shorts in this that are better than a lot of the material in Melody Time, Fun and Fancy Free, Saludos Amigos, or The Three Caballeros. I really enjoyed “All the Cats Join In”, “Without You”, “Johnnie Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet”, and “The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met”.
Popular reviews
More-
Fantasia 1940
I'll start this off by saying that I believe this is Disney's masterpiece. Snow White kicked it off in terms of feature-length films and Pinocchio refined the consistency of character, plot, and artistry throughout a narrative, but Fantasia truly is the best of the three. The film is daring, experimental, beautiful, scary, moving, and above all, it is a work of art. This, in my opinion, is the apex of Walt Disney's career in producing animation. He had other highs…
-
Soul 2020
Pete Docter has always been my second favorite of the Pixar directors, after Brad Bird, and he did not disappoint here.
In many of the studio’s films, the humor of the supporting characters undermines the profundity of the cinematic poetry that the filmmaker had been trying to create in establishing the world, the story, and the themes. This was, for me, what prevented Inside Out and Up, just to name two of Docter’s other films, from being truly great.
This,…
