i’m thinking of ending things (2020)
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions. Their lives a mimicry. Their passions a quotation.” The wind’s chiming as I type these words. I hear the […]
Tag Archives: Netflix
The Midnight Sky (2020)
“Is anyone out there?” So very stagnant and stationary, so tragic and so stifling, The Midnight Sky is a textbook example of a film that begs to be felt but […]
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
“It’s where my people come from.” A few years back I literally bought into the hype of J.D. Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy. Despite shelling out the money and having the […]
The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020)
“Was it as good as last time?” Everything that mildly worked with 2018’s The Christmas Chronicles – the joy, the vast wonder, the childlike sense of belief – has been sucked […]
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020)
“I think it’s time for a new story.” There’s so much magic and humanity on display in Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey that it’s almost hard to formally criticize, let […]
His House (2020)
“We don’t belong here.” The undisputed best scary movie of 2020 – and one of the best pictures in these temultuous times – is His House, a phycological thriller fueled […]
Over the Moon (2020)
“It’s not a silly myth. It’s real.” Gorgeously animated, ornately representative of Asian culture, and at times frustratingly too familiar, Over the Moon is a loving and lavish space endeavor […]
Holidate (2020)
“It’s not meaningless.” Raucous, raunchy, and better than expected, Holidate is a rom-com that addresses the clichés of its formula and lives by them with a more mature twist. This wouldn’t […]
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
“This is a political trial.” Intermittently resonant and admittedly timely, there remains a genuine hollowness to The Trial of the Chicago 7 that I cannot shake. The film is a […]
Hubie Halloween (2020)
“Halloween’s upon us.” For his entire life, Hubie DuBois (Adam Sandler) has been the laughing stock of his beloved Salem, Massachusetts. He’s a bit dim-witted, affable, too kind and too […]
