I watched just 4 movies last week:
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- Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution benefits enormously by being filmed backstage during a night of celebratory comedy—a 2022 Netflix special I haven’t seen, but which this documentary very much makes me want to watch. The documentary is fun and informative, warm and welcoming, and not afraid to take Netflix to task (by name) for frequently airing non-welcoming, particularly anti-trans comedians.
- Trouble in Mind is an odd movie—one “that takes place within our memories of the movies,” as Roger Ebert wrote, but I feel like I was immediately on movie’s strange wavelength.
- Poolman is an odd movie…and I feel like I had a much tougher time getting on its wavelength. The movie does a lot of interesting things, often very amiably, but it’s not difficult to see why a lot of critics absolutely hated it.
- The Beast…is an odd movie… but also a hauntingly, terrifyingly beautiful one, with a fantastic performance(s?) by Léa Seydoux. As critic Glenn Kenny writes:
“There must be beautiful things in this chaos,” Gabrielle tries to reassure the movie’s scariest version of Louis at one point. Bonello, and this movie’s, greatest dread is that someday a terrible order will emerge, one that will make whatever beauty remains disappear.