Category: One Thing I Like

I’m still not sure exactly who Predator: Badlands is for, but I imagine whoever it is will probably enjoy the heck out of it

Bugonia is a surreal black comedy that seems arch and dark but can’t completely disguise its underlying humanity. (No significant spoilers)

One Battle After Another is full of outstanding performances and virtuosic, genuinely daring filmmaking. I just wish more of it had connected with me.

Almost certainly the only review of the Emma Thompson thriller that compares it to Paddington

The Roses is a much lighter and funnier adaptation of a story that doesn’t lose its edge by choosing to be sincere

Honey Don’t! is the kind of independent, noir-tinged, straightforward detective story that just doesn’t get made anymore. (No significant spoilers)

Drive-Away Dolls has so many of the components of a good movie

I never expected this movie to treat the question “am I in the target audience?” as completely irrelevant

Weapons is so ingeniously structured and so confident in its tone that it feels like something genuinely new. (Spoilers)

Predator: Killer of Killers is a beautifully-animated action movie that challenges my basic sense of media literacy. (Minor spoilers)

The body-horror-as-metaphor-for-codependency movie Together isn’t as bonkers as I’d hoped, but it does some fantastic stuff with familiar horror movie moments

The newest version of The Naked Gun can’t live up to the brilliance of Police Squad!, but I appreciate how much it tries