"65 MILLION YEARS AGO, A VISITOR CRASH LANDED ON EARTH"
Big Sci Fi Channel energy with 65. If this came out in, I dunno, the mid to late 2000s, it’d be playing on there every weekend for a whole summer. And middle school me would’ve definitely watched more than twice.
So narratively unremarkable that it’s easy to miss what merit the flick actually possesses. Adam Driver (playing pilot Mills) commits to the bit with an intensity that audiences have come…
"Did you want another foot of rope?"
There’s enough derivative schmaltz here to give someone a cavity, and the screenplay struggles with the flow of certain beats during the film’s second half (in addition to some generally clumsy notes peppered along the way). But to the surprise of my low expectations, A Man Called Otto embraces itself with evident care, corny clunk and all. To be honest, it’s better because of that.
David Magee’s script (based on A Man Called…
"This is a twisted web, and we are not finished untangling it, not yet."
Crackling with a spirited originality made all the more pleasurable by the utter adoration for the narrative's influences, Rian Johnson's Knives Out is a whodunit for the ages; an irresistible, topical, and devilishly entertaining stroke of taut brilliance whose Christie-inspired roots find themselves simultaneously revered and rejuvenated with equal shades of Hitchcock, Columbo, and the filmmaker's genre-melding aptitude. The grasp on the assorted threads in play…
Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time (2022) – #82
"The stars are ageless, aren't they?"
That feeling. You know it, don't you? We've all been there. Your heartbeat quickens, your eyes widen, your breath slows. Hairs stand on end. It's as though you fade from reality, if only for a handful of fleeting yet transcendent moments as the frames burn themselves across every peak and valley of the mind. The reaction is unquestionable, utterly unstoppable. Emotional, chemical, something…
