• View from the Top

    View from the Top

    ★½

    Add “sit through this movie” to the list of things I’d do for Ayoade.

  • Wildcat

    Wildcat

    ★★★★★

    first time I’ve ever felt these feelings in a theater. Saw this thing so many times throughout the edit process, didnt think it could make me cry anymore. There are even more tears now. 

    I constantly wonder if making a deep hobby of mine into a career was the right decision, and it goes both ways at times. Sometimes I dont question it and other times I worry that I’ll end up hating both. After tonight, the experience of new feelings…

  • Rob Schneider: Asian Momma, Mexican Kids

    Rob Schneider: Asian Momma, Mexican Kids

    ½

    Mind if I write like 8 reviews real quick?
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    Squint your eyes and tell me who you see on stage. Is it:

    A) James Woods
    B) Billy Crystal
    C) Steve Buscemi
    D) All of the above
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    Um, what’s the opposite of self care? 
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    Rob uses his Asian mother to justify, uh, *gestures to racist dumpster fire*
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    “Is he... is he falling asleep right now?”
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    This is the longest intro to a Columbo guest villain/murder scenario…

  • I Saw the TV Glow

    I Saw the TV Glow

    This is just a film adaptation of Plato’s allegory of the cave.

    Had a really nice post-screening experience sharing coffee and dessert with friends.

    Jane makes movies that don’t really feel like anyone else’s; it’s powerful and I’m interested to see where they go.

  • Milford Graves Full Mantis

    Milford Graves Full Mantis

    ★★★★★

    I maintain that this is probably the most personally important film I’ve seen all year. I’ve been trying to approach my work in many of the same ways Graves himself approaches life, and it’s helped me grow as an artist intensely. 

    We all have a propensity to listen to nature and go with our natural instincts from birth. However, we are immediately taught out of that way of thinking. For example, we all have a natural instinct to play music…

  • The Substance

    The Substance

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    its so funny how dumb this movie is. honestly knew almost immediately it wasn’t for me, but damn, if it was? I’d be eating large, blissed out in surface level happiness. still, once i got over it, i was in childlike awe of many of the choices: which is how I’ll choose to remember it.

    gore is pretty good, the editing completely gratuitous (in a fun way), and the amount of Skin is.

    it’s all summed up in one scene for…

  • With Honors

    With Honors

    your mom HATES Timothée Chalamet but she LOVES his twink-alike Patrick Dempsey.

    sven nykvist shot this.

  • Old Joy

    Old Joy

    ★★★★½

    Somehow the universe saw fit to make this the 400th film I’ve seen at AFS Cinema. Coincidentally, it’s my last for quite some time as I’m moving in literal hours.

    This place was my home and validated certain life decisions 400 times over.

  • Tetsuo: The Iron Man

    Tetsuo: The Iron Man

    ★★★★★

    Sometimes you give a movie 5 stars because it is technically flawless and sometimes you give it 5 stars because it’s just fucking awesome. This film is both.

    If you ever have to describe the concept of industrial music, just recommend this film.

  • Love Lies Bleeding

    Love Lies Bleeding

    Was hoping this would be good and it's even better than I expected. Might go see it again.

    Lights in the theater turned on during the climax, which was like someone walking in on you doing something nasty but awesome.

  • Demonlover

    Demonlover

    ★★★★★

    35mm


    Some movies have plot elements that are so obscure that they don’t make sense; in fact, many filmmakers don’t give them a purpose. It’s just supposed to be a feeling. 

    Assayas gives them a purpose. You get the feeling, but the elements actually add up to something. 

    Sex, Power, Money (Jazmyne’s words). That’s what the film is. Lies, ghosts, consumerism. That’s what the film is. Assayas’ fetishistic playground. That’s what this film is.


    This is the closest we’ll get to an Assayas Bond film.

  • Licorice Pizza

    Licorice Pizza

    PTA’s Everybody Wants Some!!

    Really dug it, lots of revisit-value.

    Movies can make you feel so good that you feel bad.

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