Maybe it was just Jack Quaid's calling to play pathetic bitchy annoying twink boyfriends, idk he plays them so well.
The Last Showgirl (Gia Coppola, 2024): 2/5
I really wanted to like this. But it is ultimately undone by a bad script. No subtext, too contrived. Even Pam’s performance isn’t as good as I hoped it would be mainly because of how she’s directed. This movie needed some stillness and it never came. Too many interstitial sequences of characters standing around Vegas. In essence, it’s a short film padded to 85 minutes. It could gave been great at 20 minutes. Jason Schwartzman is pretty stellar in his one scene. This may be the most a Coppola has ever grappled with class struggle, for the record.
I really wanted to like this. But it is ultimately undone by a bad script. No subtext, too contrived. Even Pam’s performance isn’t as good as I hoped it would be mainly because of how she’s directed. This movie needed some stillness and it never came. Too many interstitial sequences of characters standing around Vegas. In essence, it’s a short film padded to 85 minutes. It could gave been great at 20 minutes. Jason Schwartzman is pretty stellar in his one scene. This may be the most a Coppola has ever grappled with class struggle, for the record.
Love Me (Andrew Zuchero, Sam Zuchero, 2024): 1.5/5
They had access to the entire internet and basically decided to be influencers in a toxic relationship eternally filming a Blue Apron ad.
Flight Risk (Mel Gibson, 2025): 1/5
Mel Gibson trying to be Peter Berg, which is sorta like diarrhea yearning to be normal poop.
Also, between this and the barely there part in Heretic, it’d seem Topher Grace will possibly act in your film for the price of a grocery store rotisserie chicken.
You’ve never seen anything like Grand Theft Hamlet, the wild documentary about a group of professional and amateur actors putting on a site specific production of Hamlet within the video game Grand Theft Auto. (And yes, we got a theatrically released movie made in GTA V before GTA VI.) Shot entirely within the video game, it’s both a technical marvel and a heartwarming, hilarious ode to creativity and connection.
This rendition of Hamlet seems limited by gameplay, but carries an unlimited budget in the world of GTA, making this the single most unique version of Hamlet put to screen. However, Grand Theft Hamlet's most impressive accomplishment is not in the production of Hamlet itself - it's in the way these people cultivated human connection in a world that is designed to be completely barren of it. In the world of GTA, crime and violence is rewarded, NPCs walk around the city, and even the playable characters show zero emotion. Yet, this production manages to seize that very gameplay and turns it on its head, to create a very real and beautifully hilarious experience with strangers online.
Grand Theft Auto Online is normally a hellscape and I hate it so much BUT this is good! Bravo to all involved! Now do Romeo and Juliet.
A Prince (Pierre Creton, 2023): 2/5
There is literally a MEDUSA PENIS in this film that I was not prepared for. Outside of that, I never thought an 82-minute queer film about a horny dude would be such a slog.
A black comedy about the senseless cruelty of death from a filmmaker whose mother died in 9/11. Even the Final Destination movies give their freak accidents more ceremony than the Grim Reaper affords his victims here
A Complete Unknown (James Mangold, 2024): 3/5
Chalamet's Dylan imitation borders on ingenious. Still, I think the film is at its best when it doesn't seem like it's even thinking about Dylan, instead focusing on quiet moments and idiosyncrasies between people. Little moments, little moments: like the way it perfectly (and inadvertently?) captures the poetry of smoking a cigarette while waiting outside for someone to leave their house on a sunny winter morning in New York.
“fake movie that the characters in a real movie are watching” ass movie
You're Cordially Invited (Nicolas Stoller, 2025): 1/5
You cordially get one star.
Whannell's Wolf Man comes 15 years after Universal's disappointing THE WOLFMAN, with Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins, and it's even less inspired, probably thinking it's shaking things up by playing with (and mostly abandoning) the classic mythology and taking a few different, albeit unsuccessful approaches, but at the end of the day, it's still another example of assembly-line IP that will evaporate from your memory by the time you hit the restroom when it's over.
Better Man (Michael Gracy, 2024): 2.5/5
At last. A music biopic that dares to ask: what if fame doesn't make you happy?
One of Them Days (Lawrence Lamont, 2025): 3.5/5
Trying to wrap my mind around the studio's malpractice of dumping this super funny Keke Palmer and SZA girl-buddy comedy in early January?? you dumb fucks, this is good actually!!
Official Secrets (Gavin Hood, 2019): 3/5
Everyone who has had a bad experience with a sub editor needs to see this movie. Also, it doesn't transcend the type of movie you might think it is from that poster and that boring title, but it's a really good version of that movie.
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