MogwaiMovieReviews

An intentionally amateurish-looking, low budget tribute to seventies films (clearly indebted aesthetically to Tarantino's "Death Proof") turns into basically 2007's "Timecrimes" but as a comedy, and with teleportation added. Some good ideas but much too whimsical and often it feels like a student film. The three main characters are likable but never seem consistent or believable. Well-shot though, with some funny moments.

5.6/10.

Hysterical terrorist propaganda from a trapped-in-the-Hollywood-bubble Paul Thomas Anderson, crammed with thoroughly unlikable characters doing thoroughly unrealistic things. Couldn't get all the way through it because of how bad it was. Released only two weeks after the assassination of Charlie Kirk by someone with the same beliefs as the characters in this film presented as the good guys, it's absolutely astonishing something this amateurish, artless and wrongheaded should come from the director of There Will Be Blood and Magnolia. Going to be hard to look past this going forward.

Competently-made small-scale sci-fi, a sort of feature-length Black Mirror episode, following a working class city guy taking a job in the woodlands laying cable for a new kind of quantum computers.

It's fairly talky and the stuff about pockets of humanity rebelling against the machines is a little dry and uninvolving but it gets better as it goes along. The lead actor seems to be mostly doing a Tony Soprano impression but he's the best thing in it.

Feels slightly more politically-motivated than artistic or humanistic, and the ending is anticlimactic, but it's a generally decent watch overall.

5.5/10.