The most surprising thing about this movie to me was how Paul Reiser has basically turned into Joe Montana. When did that happen? As far as the movie goes, I thought it was fine. Just…fine. Some nice bits of editing, and J.K. Simmons did indeed give a nice performance, at least when the movie allowed… Read More Whiplash
2.5 hours of concentrated misogyny. Rosamund Pike went toe-to-toe with Ben Affleck in the zero-charisma department. Even NPH couldn’t save this trash.
It’s a semi-rare thing to see a movie that passes the Bechdel test. Outside of awful romantic comedies, it’s even more rare for a movie to tell a serious story about a woman navigating the vicissitudes of adult relationships, both romantic and familial. And for the woman in question to be a woman of color? Fuhgeddaboutit.… Read More Middle of Nowhere
Oof, tragic doesn’t begin to describe it. This is a book that will haunt me for a while. It tells the story of Robert Peace, an absolutely brilliant student who grew up in East Orange. With a father in prison for murder and a mother working multiple jobs to get by, Robert somehow defied the… Read More The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
This novel makes you think it’s going to be about one thing, but takes about four huge left turns and ends up becoming about something quite different. The last third of the book drags on a tad bit and the book as a whole could have been trimmed by a hundred pages or so–but the… Read More The Paying Guests
I have so little to say about this movie. I find Wes Anderson to be such a tiring filmmaker. His shots are so fussily composed, his characters’ affectations are so unbearably whimsical, and his themes and motifs have just been beaten into the ground at this point. He’s been making the same movie for almost twenty years,… Read More Grand Budapest Hotel
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