I only watched four movies last week.
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- Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem is the kind of movie you put on in the background and forget that you’re watching. It’s probably the kind of movie they started making and forgot that they were filming.
- Sarah Snook is good in Run Rabbit Run, even if the movie is much better at making you feel unsettled from frame one than at really resolving or saying anything.
- There are moments in Extraction that play like a deliberately un-stylized version of John Wick, which makes you realize immediately why style is so much of why the John Wick movies work. There’s a fast-paced brutality to it that’s briefly effective, and Hemsworth isn’t bad, playing some of the same world-weary energy he brought to the much better Blackhat. But it’s just kind of tiresome by the end—and that’s even without the problematic white savior element baked into it.
- Asteroid City is strange and goofy and sometimes off-putting, in a way you pretty much have to expecte with a Wes Anderson movie. I’m not entirely convinced the odd framing device adds anything beyond a chance for even more actors to work with Anderson again, and it’s an overstuffed cast, but they all seem to be having fun.
I also re-watched Inside Man, which I think maybe works a little bit better when you don’t know yet how it ends, but which is still a really solidly directed movie with some very good performances.