I was going to write a longer piece on this, I have plenty of thoughts on this film that might make for a good essay in the future, but as I want to let this digest and also log this sooner rather than later, I’ll speak very briefly on it. The first thing I’ll say is that this feels like perhaps the very first faithful and good adaptation of Frankenstein, in the way that it treats its monster not as…
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American Fiction 2023
This high of a rating sort of disguises the fact that I think the film is super uneven. The mix of genres doesn’t work as well as I would like it to, a lot of the jokes are too straightforward and obvious to be funny, and in some ways the film feels too defensive about its own shortcomings. But really, at the end of the day, I liked this film at its finale way more than I did in the…