You can learn so much about these movies when you watch them with someone that's read every Hunger Games book between 3 and 17 times each.

Jennifer Lawrence stopped trying to act in these movies about halfway through the first one. In Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014), she really struggles portraying any emotion, to the point it becomes awkward watching this movie. There are a few scenes where she does a decent job, but they are few and far between.…

Excruciatingly long movie that feels like it's going to wrap up by the 80 minutes mark but in reality that's only about halfway through the movie.

Michael Bay loves the troops so goddamn much man, you could see it in all his Transformers movies but it's so apparent here. It's something I just talked about in my Platoon (1986) review, about how even if the military as a whole is rotten, the soldier is a saint, but at least Oliver…

Alright. What is this? Why? How did we get here?

So is this what animated films for adults are supposed to be? This is the type of movie being held parallel to kids' slop? The type of movie smug losers on Twitter will point to and say "people say animation is for adults but will name movies clearly made for children instead of my very mature, very "for adults", very smart, Memoir of a Snail (2024)".
I'm being so genuine…

After Emilia Pérez (2024) being allowed to exist and Anora (2024) winning the Palme d'or, has a lot to answer for its crimes against cinema this year.

After having spent 139 minutes with the titular Anora (or Ani), I could not tell you a single thing about who she is as a person. She's a sex worker, she's not afraid to speak up, she likes money a lot, that's about all Sean Baker tells us about her. This movie…