America, you know – they want someone to love, but they want someone to hate.

Well, another one of my friends mentioned they had never seen this so I brought it up relentlessly until we watched it together.

God, I love this film.

It does such a great job of showing all the sides of Tonya—yes, she’s a victim dealing with awful abuse and deserves more credit for her skating than her judges detract for her upbringing. But does that…

this is such a huge film—the scale of it is actually astronomical. one of my favorite strengths of denis villeneuve is his ability to consistently make me feel small, and he does it time and again here. the sweeping landscapes and enormous spaceships are given context for their size, and everything feels so much bigger than should be possible.

and yet, it’s simultaneously deeply intimate and personal. the reason you care about the galactic shifts in power is because you…