Letterboxd — Your life in film

Very quaint, kind of boring, but also pretty heartwarming throughout. The decision to turn this into a rom-com is what killed it for me, I'd have preferred it if it just remained a film about strangers being randomly nice to each other without developing any romantic entanglements, but I guess there's a formula to follow. Another dealbreaker is the awful hysterical wife poor Rosie Perez is stuck with, I hate this stereotype and not just in the way I'm supposed…

Whatever it was that Damien Chazelle was going for with Babylon, it gets eaten up this film's mammoth runtime. At just over three hours, this film is a confused mess, never really knowing what it wants to be or what it wants to say.

Maybe one reason it's so devoid of meaning is that it really seems like Chazelle has no regard or interest in the period he is portraying. At least with La La Land, as unsuccessful as that…

There's few films of any repute that can't be described as divisive, but Babylon has emerged from this year's awards season as one of the most acclaimed and derided runners in the race. The technical achievement the film presents ensures that no list of the best shot, best scored or best edited films of 2022 would be complete without it, but as a work of art in itself, it's hard to say that these pains have really amounted to very…

A film about addiction and the exacting task of Molly, played by Mila Kunis, to make it four days sober before she can get a shot that will help transition her into permanent sobriety.

Kunis has a challenge to give a strong performance in a demanding role opposite of Glenn Close and rises to the occasion.

Unfortunately the film itself cannot match the rawness of the performances. Overly dramatic and saccharine at times. A heavy handed and insulting score. Over-written…

(Tumble’s 94th Oscars Death Race Journey #47/53)

“I know I shouldn’t get my hopes up, but at this point, all I have left is hope”

It was 100 minutes, and it felt like the world’s longest Lifetime movie

First of all, why it’s here. Diane Warren. Look, I get it, I feel bad. 13 nominations and still winless. But at this point, it’s a running gag. Unfortunately, last year (Io Si) could’ve ended this misery, but noooooo, because they just…

Why they all kinda bad tho 😏 fine fine ass lady’s. One time I hallucinated being married to all four of them and balancing four secret lives so that each one thought I was only married to them and then they found out but it ended up being okay! They told me that it wasn’t fair of them to ask me to love just one of them when the all four of them were the love of my life. So…

Michael Morris’ “To Leslie” is a redemptive drama about a poor Southern white lady played by Andrea Riseborough, who wins $190,000 in the state lottery and only learns the value of sharing after she’s drank all her cash away. But for a while there, the film is almost as slippery and elusive as the actress who plays its title role.

Is it going to be — as the first stop along its episodic first half would suggest — a gruesome…

A terrifically tense opening scene, a very well executed heist midway through, and some genuinely brilliant shots such as the remarkable four-person line-up whilst Ava Gardner sings her song when she first meets Burt Lancaster. So it certainly has its strengths.

But - I found it pretty difficult to follow toward the end, I didn't feel nearly as involved in the fates of the characters as I'd have liked, and whilst Gardner is great she isn't in it nearly enough…