Still very surprised by the overall popularity of this film and its status as Best Picture winner – this is not a movie I expected to resonate with the general public in the way that it appears to have (for better and for worse, discourse-wise)

Mikey Madison is obviously incredible, in the way that she also was in a much quieter way in the beautiful, underseen FX show Better Things (well worth your time)

Openly very funny, but this is…

Not hard to see where this is going, even going in blind. It’s a queasy reminder of the modern world’s (continued) poor treatment of mental health and (largely) lackadaisical gun control, as well as how often these events look so obvious in hindsight and how we still remained largely doomed to repeat them.

Feels a little too stretched out to justify the length, although maybe I just reached my limit of soul-crushing dread (which is pretty all-consuming from very early…