Damn it, just cried my heart out. I think this is it. The ultimate film about loving film. I don't think the essence of being a cinephile can get any more accurately and poetically framed than this. Many people praise this film for its uniqueness, brilliance, influence, etc. but me, I was just touched by its heartbreaking character study of US, film lovers. I'm used to seeing 'going to da moviez' portrayed as a euphoric experience, both an exercise and…

This should have been a homerun – my favorite classic Hollywood actor and the seasoned actress I've been enamored lately, on what I found out was Fritz Lang's final American production. Beyond A Reasonable Doubt is not totally bereft of amusement; it's one of Lang's trademark socially conscious films, a clear-headed indictment of capital punishment. It has a fundamentally absurd main conceit that you HAVE to go along with, common sense thrown out the window, and in the last minute,…

The most valid of crashouts. She is all of us.

Got me hooked, this tight 90 min t with a generic selling point, so easy to build tension and release upon. Living with a next-door neighbor from Hell. I did expect the revenge arc to be gorier and more gratuitous, John Wick-pilled that I am, but this little British urban housing thriller keeps things inside the realm of Homeowner Association possibilities. Too realistic, maybe? Our main character can't go on…

Wow, a film about arrested development due to sexual trauma, involving imagined aliens. What a mysterious concept.

Positives first: Cool mix of rotoscoping and traditional animation. The multiple switches in animation styles as plot device were inspired. There's a tender love story in here as well.

Now to my lukewarm take... At best, portraying sexual trauma as some mythic monster that we have to keep at arm's length all our lives until we reach critical mass and finally kill it…

I didn't want this to end ....

What can I say, I'm a softie for good romances. This was a tiny departure from Marco Berger's usually super quiet, static, artsy films exploring the homosexual gaze. It's still intimate and understated, but felt more like Berger's idea of a "commercial" rom-com. Kind of a gay love letter to Rohmerian cinema, trading the endless streams of philosophizing and navel-gazing for endless homoerotic ribbing and flirting. I honestly could watch hours of this…