Letterboxd — Your life in film

The highest praise I can give this movie is that it felt absolutely real, almost like a piece of documentary. McConaughey, Leto, and Garner are all tremendous, but not overstated. Man, when McConaughey is on, he's ON. He is absorbed by his roles more than any actor I can think of. The filmmaking avoids self-indulgence (with the exception of the incessant ear-ringing noise, which got to be annoying asf) and sells this as a true historical drama.

The first ending…

My first viewing of Interstellar was in theaters during my senior year of high school. I saw it with friends, and it is among the best movie-going experiences of my life. Mad Max: Fury Road also came out during that school year, and I think those two movies above all else convinced me of the "power of movies. They blew my doors off.

Interstellar inspires awe in me in its purest form. Space fascinates me, and to see it so…

Founding member of Pure Fun movies. Getting a horny ad exec confused for James Bond is an incredible set-up — he’s just irrationally confident enough to keep digging himself deeper into a hole — and every other piece of this delivers. I really don't know what to say other than I'd rewatch it again this instant.

There's some big Burn After Reading energy in the government meeting in which they decide to leave Thornhill alone. This works on so many levels,…

The Nolan inter-cut: the movie.

Seriously tho, this movie is such a flex. Nolan shows you his cards — the top hats at the very beginning, Angier’s death, Cutter’s opening monologue — but bets on his nonlinear narrative to still leave you guessing. And it does!

Unfortunately, it also has one of Nolan’s other trademarks: the dead wife — or dead wives in this case. Not thrilled by that, especially Sarah’s suicide which feels half-assed from what we know of…

A lot to like here — Rashida Jones is a charisma-machine, Billy Murray is Bill Murray (no one else is allowed to say “kiddo” ever again), the motor mouth friend — so this was a very pleasurable watch.

It was exciting seeing Laura’s growth throughout the movie, although exchanging the watches was a bit on the nose, I thought. It did belie belief to see Felix convince her to go to Mexico, but whatever I’ll go with it. 

Marlon Wayans…