100 Films for 2025: #39

I’m a huge Almodóvar fan but I’m especially fond of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, so Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! in particular is one I’ve been excited to check out for a while. Coming on the heels of Women on the Verge…, this is Almodóvar still operating in that range somewhere between his sex comedies of the early ‘80s and the more sincere melodramas he’d become best known for from the…

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was conning a bunch of old white suburbanites into paying to watch an anime in the theater as part of AMC Screen Unseen. This was the most packed I’ve seen the theater in a while, and I counted over 25 walkouts within the first 15 minutes of the movie. Pretty hilarious but also pretty pathetic. Easily the theatrical experience of the year so far.

As for the film, I couldn’t follow the plot or…