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Having now watched the series twice-through, my initial review stands. I’ll also note that, having watching this movie first then watching M:I 1 second, I was similarly under the false impression that close-up magic would play a huge role in all of these movies. 

I know there are set pieces I love more (opera house) and set pieces that are objectively more impressive (halo jump) but I’m not sure there’s any that fundamentally delight me as much as the car chase in this one!!!

That’s the trouble with you readers, you know all the plots.

full-length remake starring wiig and hader when

watched this alone at 10am on a Wednesday in 70mm IMAX with a bagel and iced coffee that I’d smuggled in, in the middle of a work trip to ny that I’d strategically planned so I could see this as the lord (coogler) intended (BIG) on it’s one-week-long return to imax. grateful that I got the chance to watch this in slack jawed awe with an absolutely packed theater; hopeful for what it’s success could mean for the next decade of studio filmmaking.

The thing is, if that club were real, you know that bathroom would have been absolutely covered in piss.

Anne Baxter’s dead eye little smile is unreal

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

I love this transcendently stupid and insane movie so so so much

Kind of wish they’d had either 25mil more or 25mil less to make this, but also wish Garland would’ve let someone else write this script. A great pet peeve of mine is when, in pursuit of not wanting to tell the viewer/reader/listener how to feel, information we need in order to assess the work coherently is withheld. Whether deliberately or not, opaqueness does not equal intellect.

And yet, from a craft perspective, I liked more of this than expected!  And I’d follow Kiki Dunst into literal war too so, ultimately, I get it.

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

who’s going to pay for my phd so I can write 50k words on how MI 1 > MI 2 perfectly encapsulates the aggressive rate of cultural change between ‘96 and 2000

Roger Deakins you will always be famous

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

this feels like the right place to it that I thought Wyatt Earp was a fictional character until like two years ago

the way Goldie refers to one of the kids as “a falsetto child”

Watched on Thursday April 3, 2025.

this looked so gd good!!!!! and that is enough for me

being raised on the beach means I unironically nodded along in agreement to everything swayze says in the first half.

“then he had lunch at Patrick’s Road House” 🥹

hmmmmm well this really didn’t make me feel a thing huh

yoohoo shit heads, I just found a bag of fireworks in the men’s restroom 

Watched on Monday March 24, 2025.

Didn’t hit as hard for me as asteroid city did but I enjoyed this far more than expected, especially considering my net-negative feelings about the nyer. The first story is nearly perfect (it’s a fresco!!!); I did not expect Benicio to be such a glorious fit for Wes’ style.

oh, I just loved this.

the pta ranking twitter discourse led to one (1) good thing: me throwing on this bad boy and having an absolutely delightful time  / Joaquin doing his best Belushi (complimentary) / love imagining them going straight from shooting the master to this / every. single. time. I have seen Katherine Waterstone in something, I have paused it to google ‘Katherine Waterstone” / I love when they let Martin Short play a creep / Josh Brolin’s little hot dog suit / maybe some of PTA’s funniest visuals??? / if nothing else, I love the man for knowing how to block the hell out of a shot

Has there ever been another movie that felt this prophetic regardless of what year you watched it for the first time

the guerrilla director being styled exactly like contemporary Marty / Faye Dunaway’s little hand when she staccatos “each week we open with an authentic act of political terorism.” / when I’m worried publishing as an industry is sprinting towards obsolescence, I think about how my dream job in college was to be a programmer / “illusions” pronounced like gob bluth/ when you used to read a contract in person!!! / bring back tables with their own little row of lamps / what if we let Chris Parnell do the Ned Beatty monologue / “because you’re on tv you dummy”

sandra bernhard

you know what, I knew this wasn’t going to be for me so I’m not sure why I’m surprised watching it felt like one long “dead dove, do not eat”.

all I’m saying is that no self respecting woman from south Brooklyn would EVER pronounce the “r” in hooker.

Watched on Sunday March 16, 2025.

welcome to the swamp of death - me letting someone into my home when I’m in the middle of a depressive episode

I think this gets at the guts of some things that aren’t particularly fresh or intellectual maybe, but are simple and true in the way all humans are ultimately simple and true. I don’t think it wants to be more than that, nor does it need to be. 

Also, I loved the color grading! Some real nice shots! They don’t make em like this any more (category: mid aughts focus features).

to me, this is a perfect movie. Maggie Smith’s nod-shrug reaction to SJP’s “can I say something?”; “that chair is AGONY”; literally every single second that Goldie Hawn is on screen — top-to-bottom perfection.

PS for my fellow former NYU kids, their office is the dick blick near campus and I screamed out loud when we figured it out. time is a flat circle etc etc etc I want a chopped cheese from le basket

the mmm whatcha say digital short owes this movie residuals

Watched on Sunday February 16, 2025.

Watched on Saturday February 8, 2025.

Watched on Friday February 7, 2025.

yeah I cried at least once during each and every one of these what the fuck of it

That’s called incest, Arlene. And it’s against the law. 

Absolute god tier shit. Every performance is perfect. Let me tell you how disorienting it is to have seen this movie before seeing All The Presidents Men. My favorite story structure: everyone is an absolute idiot but the gut morality of two teenage girls prevails.

there are so many things that unexpectedly shocked me about this movie but the fact that the narrative framework is a literal interview may just be #1 (yes, I am a very very dumb woman)

Liked the first half a lot better than the second half (just felt like it lost some teeth) but, still, this ruled. Slater doing Nicholson! Her bedside table with the punctuation knobs! Winona’s diary monocle! The lighting!!!! What an absolutely wild movie to have achieved the cultural penetration that this one has.

Watched on Sunday January 19, 2025.

as someone who said out loud “the only way I could hate this movie more is if the two fassbenders kissed” mere seconds before that’s exactly what happened in Covenant, this one is MUCH more in my lane Alien-wise. Yes, it’s basically a CW show from 2010 and, yes, there are too many video game cut scene set ups. But we get a bunch of fresh faces giving great performances! And it looks so much better than it needed to! And it’s just! so! goopy! Makes me very excited to watch more Álvarez.

cronenberg does severance by way of josie and the pussycats. a movie about how if you JUST FOLLOWED THE RULES. (to be clear, I fucking loved this.)

I’m going to need 5-10 business days to pull together any kind of coherent thoughts about this one but, for now, I’ll say that Adrien Brody looks so much like my maternal grandfather that I found myself holding my breath as he shaved with a straight razor, practicing english in the mirror of a dark but still sunlit midcentury bathroom — my own childhood memory projected back at me.

Watched on Thursday January 9, 2025.

you know, you think you’re an enlightened anti-gun kinsey-four kind of gal and then you watch pablo schrieber cock a handgun on his boot heel while bleeding out and you’re ready to go full trad cath 

this fucking ripped!!!! I can’t believe someone combined heat and the town and like one scene from fast and furious and NONE OF YOU TOLD ME ABOUT IT

Watched on Monday January 6, 2025.

Watched on Thursday January 2, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday January 1, 2025.

felt like the right way to say goodbye to this fucking weird year. I want to know the percentage of spoken dialogue that actually matches what the actor’s mouth is saying; my bet is it’s less than 40%. this movie is sloppy to a level that I didn’t think major studio films were allowed to reach anymore and, for that, I love it.

I cannot emphasize enough how much I, having never seen this movie before, thought it was about italians.

genuinely incredible to me how a film with such aggressively black and white morality (this guy suuuuuuucks, textually) could be so willfully misunderstood on a cultural level.

Watched on Sunday December 29, 2024.

sure, it was a choice on my part to watch this after spending the last four days on Long Island for Christmas but I will say with my full chest: this is a documentary.

tie for top moment is either the dairy barn cameo or dessert table close up with the disembodied voice of a woman in her mid fifties saying “I nevah eat like this.”

• The Age of Innocence

  Michelle Pfeiffer > Winona Ryder

• Heathers

  > Christian Slater

• Interview with the Vampire

  > Kirsten Dunst  

• Dick

  > Dan Hedaya

• The First Wives Club

  > Goldie Hawn

you choose a movie, you watch the movie > you choose an actor from that movie, partner chooses new movie from that actor’s filmography, you watch that movie > partner picks an actor from that movie, you pick a new movie from that actor’s filmography … and so on and so forth amen

• I'm Not There

  Richard Gere > Cate Blanchett 

• Nightmare Alley

  Cate Blanchett > Willem Dafoe

• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

  Willam Dafoe > Michael Gambon
  

• Hail, Caesar!

  Michael Gambon > Ralph Fiennes 

• Quiz Show

  Ralph Fiennes > John Turturro

• The Good Shepherd

  John Turturro > Billy Cruddup

• Spotlight

  Billy Crudup > Mark Ruffalo

• Collateral

  Mark Ruffalo > Jamie Foxx

• Django Unchained

  Jamie Foxx > Leonardo DiCaprio 

• Gangs of New York

  DiCaprio > Daniel Day Lewis 

...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

you choose a movie, you watch the movie, you choose an actor from that movie > partner chooses new movie from that actor’s filmography, you watch that movie, partner picks an actor from that movie > you pick a new movie from that actor’s filmography and so on and so forth amen

• The Menu

  Start of Movie Game > John Leguizamo

• Super Mario Bros.

  John Leguizamo (The Menu) > Bob Hoskins

• Brazil

  Bob Hoskins (Super Mario Bros) > Robert De Niro

• Ronin

  Robert Di Nero (Brazil) > Stellan Skarsgard

• Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

  Stellan Skarsgard (Ronin) > Meryl Streep

• Death Becomes Her

  Meryl Streep (Mamma Mia 2) > Bruce Willis

• The Sixth Sense

  Bruce Willis (Death Becomes Her) > Mischa Barton

• Notting Hill

  Mischa Barton (Sixth Sense) > Julia Roberts

• Flatliners

  Julia Roberts (Notting Hill) > Kevin Bacon

• Tremors

  Kevin Bacon (Flatliners) > Fred Ward

...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.