I full on sobbed in seat F12 of the IMAX theater at AMC Lincoln Square this morning.
This movie is an absolute masterwork in every sense, and the 70mm IMAX format made this a once-in-a-lifetime audio/visual experience that’s right up there with seeing U2 at Sphere.
I never feel more alive than when art is able to move me the way this does.
Chris Nolan undefeated.
Sterling K. Brown’s work in this is a great example of a performance that deserves a lot of praise for its realism and lack of showiness; it’s a skill we should recognize more often.
Masterpiece.
"It's a door closing."
I haven't been able to get that small, throwaway line from Florence Pugh's character out of my head, because the brilliance of this film is in that inversion.
Perhaps the thing I love most about Oppenheimer is how Nolan spends so much of the film opening doors.
Doors that lead into and out of Oppenheimer's mind, forcing the audience to reckon with what he reckons with, compartmentalize what he has to compartmentalize, and due to…
Dr. Oppenheimer or How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate The Bomb and Also Myself
Need to watch again to fully process but holy shit.
Tom Cruise literally going to war to kill an algorithm. What more can you ask for from a movie in 2023?
This was amazing. Just amazing. Tom and McQuarrie are in absolute peak form in a film that, and I really can’t believe I’m saying this, manages to outdo Fallout every step of the way (minus the cinematography and general look which were amazing there and just really good here). These sequences are just flat out perfectly executed, operating under…
I for one would like to thank Mr. Tom Cruise for his commitment to making the sickest, most visceral and rad action movies purely for our enjoyment.
In a few years after we’ve been gifted two more “Mission” movies and a trip to space, he should then be added to Mt. Rushmore.
All else I can say movie-wise is that the planes go real fast in this one, there are a lot of big booms, and one of the great montages (set to The Who, great choice) in the history of film is put to the screen.
Movies!
There will be no better comedic movie moment in 2022 than a J.K. Rowling-written character casting someone as a villain for tearing the world apart with bigotry and hate.
Absolutely no notes on that one you big transphobic pile of wet grass. Rules for thee but not for me I guess. The audience boo’d at the sight of her and her name, so Potter fans stay woke, thank god.
Btw! If you go see this, make sure to donate some…
✅ Godfather reference
✅ Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy reference
✅ Made by a real director of sight and sound with narrative focus to the story and not a million set ups for movies being pre-vis’d to death 3 years before a single crew member is hired.
The narrative might not have the payoffs Reeves thinks it does, but literally everything else about The Batman is done to perfection, unrivaled in this subgenre since the caped crusader’s spiritual predecessor of Bale…
I need you. And I love you.
While I still get caught up in the mafia politics, the character interactions and immaculate story construction, these last few watches I have thought more about the thematic element of America in these movies.
Of course it starts with the big speech, but I like how the theme of the Corleone’s assimilation into the country is woven in in subtle ways, with Kay, and Michael’s admission to her in the quote above, as…
Larrain takes a big leap forward (this is Jackie: Part II but only when it comes to the cinematography and structure) in his snapshot biopic evolution, Stewart puts in her best work to date (Catch That Kid notwishstanding) and oh boy the royal fam continues to take L's.
The real MVP of the film though is Nicola Iles, Kristen Stewart’s hairstylist. She deserves an Oscar and also perhaps a Nobel Peace Prize. Maybe she should be the President? I’m open to anything.
Bumping up to a 4.5/5 because it made me cry again lol.
In retrospect, it’s interesting how many plot points these borrow from other recent films, especially The Dark Knight with Skyfall and this with Avengers: Endgame.
They have all been effective, so I’m not complaining about it, but I do hope the next person’s movies chart their own course a bit.
But these are minor quibbles, the Danny Craig movies all rule. Sad to see it end!
In 2006, they needed a win. They had a new Bond, there was backlash, and they needed a win.
In 2012, they needed a win. The studio was in dire straits financially, a film hadn't been made in four years, and they needed a win.
Both times, they got a win.
In 2021, they once again needed a win. A director/script change at the last second and three delays due to a global pandemic made it so that a film…