- Félicité (17, A-): You watch it in your head the way you watch Get Out in your guts. Deftly negotiates an evolving story, impenetrable characters. 3/1/18
- I, Tonya (17, B+): WHERE is Sebastian Stan’s nomination? 3/3/18
- The Salesman (17, A-): N/A 3/5/18
- Since You Went Away (44, B): Homefront patriotism often blunt, but melancholy and deep family ties are richly evoked. Colbert works it. 3/5/18
- Since You Went Away is an Important film that I like well enough but Airplane! ruined that goodbye train sequence for me
- The Descent (06, B+): Human terror of the first half amplifies and complicates the inhuman ones of the second. Fuck caves. 3/6/18
- I don’t know WHAT is in those caves but this is scary enough without subterranean hell beasts
- Western (18, A): Astounding document of communication, of assimilation as filtered by fondness, prejudice, and outsider status. 3/8/18
- A Wrinkle in Time (18, B-): Impassioned heart of first half (C+) limit its impact, but raised stakes of second half (B) bring it to life. 3/9/18
- Black Panther (18, B): Three times I’ve seen Black Panther now, and every time I’ve had a different reaction. What an unexpectedly slippery film. 3/10/18
- Plus: Wakanda and the characters are wonderfully realized on a visual scale. Minus: Morrison is so the film’s most uneven contributor, and the editing’s not super either
- The Party (18, D+): Why offer ideas when I can just state my personal ideologies in overbaked witticisms? That’s the same thing, right? 3/11/18
- Lifeboat (18, B): Stylistically limited. Script muddled. Impactful nonetheless, but there’s a tougher film inside. Tallulah pretty good 3/11/18
- Stonewall (15, D): Engages ideas with barely any complexity, horrendously made and acted. Perfect case of what not to do at every turn. 3/13/18
- Whoever this is playing Marsha is Bad
- Every scene of Stonewall opens like it’s a porno but then just devolves into abusive nonsense or mangled attempts at pathos
- Can’t believe I just had to watch Jeremy Irvine almost cry his way through a blowjob
- Why is there not one sexual encounter that isn’t remotely horrifying in one way or another
- *with completely unconvincing anger* GAY POWER!!! GAAAYYY POOOWEER
- Wow this really. Does not know what to do with the riot huh?
- You’re telling me there were FOUR ADDITIONAL NIGHTS and just skipping them over for what? For that? What kind of nonsense is this?
- The Danish Girl (15, D): Dismal understanding of its own characters, further heightened by Hooper’s directorial style. Final scenes laughable. 3/14/18
- I saw folks criticize Get Out for its painfully low budget but like, Danish Girl is buried in money and has no idea what good framing is
- Redmayne is weirdly creepy?, and Vikander’s hardly the life raft I remembered
- I would honestly take the very fascinating and somewhat engaged failure of Stonewall to the overwrought disconnect of The Danish Girl
- Why does the actual surgery seem so terrifying? For fuck’s sakes
- Why are they playing it like Lili knows she’s doing the new surgery too soon and – ergo – is planning on dying? What is this?
- Tom Hooper’s sense of framing is absolutely hazardous
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (11, B): N/A 3/14/18
- The Big Sick (17, B): Appropriately messy, but could be leaner. Heart, warmth, terrific writing and performances more than worth it. 3/15/18
- Fullmetal Alchemist (18, D-): Atrocious wigs. Even more atrocious CGI (besides Al). Even more more atrocious adaptation. 3/19/18
- It’s bungling the iconography soooo badly
- Velvet Goldmine (98, A): Deconstruction/eulogy/celebration uses the emptiness of its era to poignant, startling effect. 3/20/18
- Gloriously mounted, delightfully pansexual, rich with ideas. Haynes, Powell, Alberti all flying above us.
- In honor of Brian Slade I’m gonna fill my queer cinema paper with lots of big, flashy words and drain it of any substance whatsoever
- My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (17, B): N/A 3/23/18
- A Woman’s Life (17, A-): N/A 3/23/18
- Double Indemnity (44, A-): Deliciously entertaining, muscularly constructued. Script, actors fit together like a watch. 3/23/18
- Love, Simon (18, B): Incredibly charming cast & story. Kinda long, ends a lot, but more personality and gayness than I expected. Miller the MVP. 3/25/18
- I’d like to amend here and now that after stewing on it some more I rank it at about a C+, think the cast is sorta iffy outside of Miller, and that the film’s relations to queerness and to race are problematic
- Moonlight (16, A-): The kind of film that gives Best Picture a good name. Hard to image a storytelling mode it doesn’t perfectly utilize. 3/26/18
- Contextualizing this for class has made me even more impressed with the film as an act of representation and as a marvelously assembled artwork
- Ali, Rhodes, Holland, Laxton, Brittel, Jenkins, all all all all perfect. Sound mixing, editing even better than I remembered
- The surest sign that I’m learning shit in college is that I feel a lot more confident in my ability to explain what I love about this film in a way I know I couldn’t last year
- The Death of Stalin (18, C+): Cast, script have many moments but escalation of Ianucci’s themes yield broader, easier film than In The Loop. 3/26/18
- Menace II Society (93, B): More schematic, less impactful than Boyz, but does right by less respectable characters without glorification. 3/26/18
- The Imitation Game (14, D+): Not a bad codebreaker film, decently acted. Near absolute failure to engage with Turing’s sexuality pathetic. 3/28/18
- Fifty minutes into the Imitation Game. Still no mention of his homosexuality. Still no need for the schoolboy shit. Still whatever
- 59 minutes. First sighting of homosexuality
- My fuckin skull hurts how did this WIN adapted screenplay
- Has any character gone without one monologue about how awful Alan Turing is? I don’t think so
- I should clarify that yes, I am upset about how the film handles his homosexuality, but also it’s just terrible from a storytelling standpoint
- Wishing Carol had won Adapted Screenplay even more just so we could’ve gotten four consecutive years of The Gays absolutely OWNING that category
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