This movie is infinitely better if:

- Woody Harrleson was not in it. A character who spends time stifling any of the momentum and development between Parker and the rest of the cast. A nothingburger role, a role solely so people scrolling on Hulu will stop and say "Is that Woody Harrelson?"

- wasn't afraid to actually dive deeper into the politics of life, death, and religion.

Every moment between Parker and her friends or Parker and Linney, it was…

Look at the bottoms of those trees. Look how gnarled they are, and yet they live. 

Not enough movies attempt to have honest conversations about being elderly— sometimes I think it’s because we are mostly afraid of the truths, the reality and the anxieties of being a burden on the ones you love. Thelma is not only unafraid to discuss them, but also has a blast poking fun at them. There is an acknowledgment that with age, there is a sense…

Reinventing the slasher genre is a nearly impossible task and while I won’t declare In a Violent Nature does this, it gets pretty damn close. A movie that reverse engineers the jump scare and forces you to sit with the dread of the inevitable. A conversation is heard in the distance and we are forced to follow every step of Johnny’s hunt and it is endlessly harrowing. 

Its pacing will be why people look away and pull their phone out, but…

The more I sit with A Real Pain, the more I love it. Chronicling a journey that is both about self-discovery but also reconciling the trauma of the past is an incredibly difficult thing to articulate in words, let alone on the silver screen— yet I think Eisenberg is able to capture so much honesty in that journey largely thanks to the titanic performance from Culkin. Not sure any other actor right now could make you laugh one second and…