This is where I’ll post movie reviews when I feel compelled to write more than a few sentences about them. Essentially just a rehash of my Letterboxd effortposts.

• Adopt a Highway (2019)
  This is sort of a tough one because this movie’s strong points almost allow it to make a clean getaway, but the story is frankly too nonsensical for the otherwise breathtakingly vulnerable filmmaking to obscure its weaknesses. It is certainly the most empathetic characterization of an ex-convict that I’ve seen in a film, and Ethan… Read more: Adopt a Highway (2019)
• Marty Supreme (2025)
  I’m so glad I watched this just a few days after seeing Glengarry Glen Ross for the first time. There’s no better superstar in 2025 than Timothee Chalamet to reinforce the aforementioned film’s insistence that acting is performance is salesmanship.  Chalamet’s devotion to his role is both parts ironic, as demonstrated by the 20-minute long faux marketing meeting… Read more: Marty Supreme (2025)
• Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
  It makes so much sense that this film was originally written as a stage play; very little matters in this movie besides the delivery of dialogue from the actors. The salesman are ostensibly competing for the highest dollar value on the chalkboard, but what they truly desire is the perfection of performance— for their clients,… Read more: Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
• Slacker (1990)
  I realized that I used the word “meandering” in the last two posts I made here, which is truly a shame because I don’t think you could describe this movie without using this word, so I’m going to have to make it three in a row.  There are multiple references to the micro budget of… Read more: Slacker (1990)
• How to Blow Up A Pipeline (2022)
  I have what I think are a few rather pedantic critiques of this movie, which I generally found to be suspenseful, well-made, and above all unapologetically radical; I feel like I’m harping on it a bit but I think it’s a very thought-provoking film so I might as well articulate them. First, the good: I… Read more: How to Blow Up A Pipeline (2022)