Never before has a scene featuring someone buying a motorcycle been met with such knowing dread
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American Fiction 2023
There's like two too many threads here, but I could watch Jeffrey Wright all day, so hey
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The Neon Demon 2016
I can't imagine how this thing's going to play on 1,000 screens this weekend.
My god.
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Gone Girl 2014
It still doesn't really work all that well as a story on a second viewing. Obviously knowing the twist doesn't help the fundamental problem of of the film's lack of balance between its two leads. It's just too heavily pitched toward Affleck's character, making him into more of a lovable oaf who has made mistakes than a cad even remotely deserving of revenge. It never convincingly establishes the possibility that Nick Dunne could be at all at fault for the…