Solid addition to my list of films that I really enjoy, but would not recommend to literally anyone I know. At its most extreme, this is even more gross and hard to watch than The Substance. It doesn't truly ramp up the gnarly factor until the back half, but my goodness, it gets wild there. Fucking tapeworms. Why do those even exist?!
Beyond that, there's some very strong filmmaking at work here with a superb central performance. This isn't the…
I still don't love this movie but it's quite a bit better if you watch it as a metaphor for drug addiction. Which, frankly, I can't believe I didn't pick up on that on the first watch. This is very obviously a movie about drug addiction. You're not watching someone grab a demonic hand, you're watching someone fall into a spiral of self-destructive peer pressure, ruining lives in their wake. Not just their own lives but the lives of their…
Actually one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. We are introduced to an insufferable main character with zero likable qualities and you’re stuck with them for two and a half hours. Early on we discover the movie is not only racist but also anti-cancel culture apparently when Tar tries to absolutely dunk on a young black male for having preferences in the musical composers he listens to. It might be the most pretentious scene I’ve ever seen in a…
