![]() ![]() ![]() The movie concerns smalltown 20-something dudes with commitment issues. One of them develops a creepy crush on a young ( like, really young ) Natalie Portman, and none of them are good enough for Uma Thurman, rightly so. The movie, like the emo band, is mainly about angsty suburban boys pretending to be profound. THE LAST DUEL (2021): Ridley Scott’s long “he-said, she-said” is lascivious and unexpectedly arch. The medieval Rashoman is admirable in its intent, but what will stand through the test of time are Damon’s mullet and Affleck’s dye job, and how Adam Driver comes between them.īEAUTIFUL GIRLS (1996): It took me over ten years to watch the movie excerpted in a Taking Back Sunday single that I used to scream at the top of my lungs in high school. But above all, the hivemind of bosom buddies, old friends and fresh recruits, conquers fear, pain, and life. Abject terror alternates with pure showmanship in an engaging display of heartrending audacity. Outsize adrenaline replaces plot, flab and flaccid junk swaps in for genderpolitks. ![]() JACKASS FOREVER (2022): What better way to distract from the work week than the pulverizing and breathtaking comedy of Jackass? Here are men resting in untrammeled, prank-fueled ebullience, divorced from any reality. ![]()
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