"Nolan himself has claimed that Interstellar's many dialogue-heavy scenes being overpowered by environment and score was intentional."
"American Psycho is a warning more than 20 years after its release."
"The whole point of this film is to show the fundamental importance of self-expression and human connection."
"The truth is that what makes the Star Wars universe interesting is the dark side of the force."
"The categories are going to be the most accurately adapted plot, d'Artagnan, Three Musketeers, Cardinal Richelieu, Milady de Winter, and then the best adaptation."
"It's hard to believe that this movie came out just over 20 years ago, and it's arguably gotten even more relevant to the present issues."
"It's such a thought-provoking sequence. The entire movie is just like packed full of so many social commentaries and so many powerful messages."
"The brilliance of many great films comes from their focus and simplicity."
"Inner peace in this movie is physically and visibly represented with the water droplet."
"Taxi Driver is one of the most important films that's ever been made, not only is it a masterpiece in every way a film can be, but it also carries a deep and layered message."
"I love its detail. Gerwig breathes such idiosyncrasy into every character."
"Shrek is a masterpiece of musical storytelling."
"This movie explores that aspect of the Candyman lore much more deeply and it adds in issues like... gentrification and its effects on the neighborhood."
"Great horror films tap into the fears of their time, highlighting them and letting audiences indulge in something they're either consciously or subconsciously terrified of in real life."
"A movie can live and die with its antagonist."
"The Hills Have Eyes is clearly a more intellectual effort in exploitation films on Wes Craven's part and is an early example of his attempts to elevate horror's status beyond just blood and guts."
"Despite the negative name, contagions can be good, bad, neutral, or ambiguous."
"Psycho famously departed from tradition by killing its main protagonist at the end of the First Act in one of the most famous scenes in cinema history."
"The original Ghostbusters, if you think about it, they took that seriously. And we don't have that anymore."
"At Wisecrack, there’s nothing we like more than having our minds bent by movies."
"The astral dimension of the Doctor Strange film shows us there is an existence of souls in the MCU."
"'Inception' explored the nature of reality with a film structure that reflects the surreal illusions of its subject matter."
"In so many ways, cinema is simple: the aesthetic domain of lasting films repose in three principal pillars—tone, style, and story."
"1408 is a representation of the tipping point of depression."
"Cruel Intentions was the debaucherous, wildly hedonistic teen film that birthed sons like Elite and Euphoria."
"And to leave Cruel Intentions 1 in 1999 and that stories about bad people aren’t necessarily glamorizing being bad."
"This movie doesn't deliver a message... it pulls out these themes and doesn't tell us what to think about them, it just shows us 'hey, this was here the whole time.'"
"Forrest Gump is COINTELPRO the movie; it's why it's such an inoffensive movie to American audiences and why it was so easy to praise, especially around awards season."
"Donnie Darko is a baffling experience and one that confuses just as much as it delights."
"It wasn't the airplanes that killed him, it was beauty that killed the beast."
"You gotta love that moment, just the way Furiosa doesn't actually ask; there's like this unspoken look."
"Subtlety, it would seem, is an art wholly lost in this trash propaganda film."
"Have you ever gone to a movie, saw a movie, knew that the movie was good, but also knew that the movie had all these different hidden messages connected to it?"
"At the end of the day, the film is still a tremendous achievement with its phenomenal character work and visual storytelling."
"A Promising Young Woman is not a film about revenge; it is about grief."
"The film isn't trying to teach us something new or reveal something unknown, it is trying to make the gravity of a situation so clear and obvious that we cannot ignore it."
"Spider-Man 2 is a film about sharing your truth."
"I'm here to state that 'Love & Basketball' is actually much more timely than ever as a love story because it's much deeper and more complex than most of us who watched it at 18 years old 20 something years ago could really give it credit for."
"Encanto is a pretty crazy movie. It has some real deep moments in it."
"This is one of the first times I've seen, in the Marvel world, but also in any memorable movie from recent years, where the villain's goals are sympathetic."
"Psycho changed what we know about cinema and audience expectations and gave birth to a new sub-genre of horror: the slasher."
"Scream is a meta film which, in this case, means it's a witty deconstruction of, a love letter to, and a commentary on the horror genre."
"The hot takes on The Incredibles are that Brad Bird's 2004 superhero film is pro-Objectivist propaganda."
"It revitalizes the horror genre by both comedically commenting on its tropes, shortcomings, and cliches while also being one of the finest examples of what the horror and slasher genre can be."
"The movie is Kurt at heart, and most of the film is really Kurt's heart."
"I thought it was a very exciting, dynamic blockbuster action film that had an underscoring of great tension in its emotional scenes and light-hearted scenes, with overall messages that were actually quite relevant and tied to today's politics but without being too on the nose and direct."
"The favorite is both queer history and queering history because, as director Jorgos Lanthimos clearly knows, our viewpoint of history is never purely a reconstruction of the facts. We actively construct history based on our own opinions."
"If you're having a really fun time watching it, laughing along with him while he's in school, and then suddenly when Peter's stuck under rubble, if suddenly you were like, 'Wait, am I kind of like tearing up here?' Then yes, it works."
"This is a multi-layered film that combines theology, science, and fantasy with no one definitive interpretation."
"These films are as worthy of film analysis and deeper critique as those art-house flicks that win all the Oscars."
"I stand before you today in my underwear, asking for your ear so that I may attempt to, through it, persuade you that the message of 'The Matrix Resurrections' is widely misunderstood."
"Mulholland Drive is a David Lynch masterpiece and has all the standard Lynch trademarks: a narrative that doesn't always make sense, seemingly unconnected vignettes and scenes rich with symbolism."
"The aspect about 'Across the Spider-Verse' that I believe is the major factor in its becoming this massive phenomenon is its cleverness."
"Since I started making horror retrospectives full-time, I've covered the big boy topics of my favorite horror film, my favorite horror guilty-pleasure, and my choice for scariest film."
"A good example of a film that raised the bar, I thought, was Saving Private Ryan."
"Every time and always, the Matrix sequels should have been seen as one film because you've got one whole movie of setup and one whole movie of payoff."
"Crimes isn't quite as gory or horror-centric as some of his earlier work, but it is a much more thoughtful and strange look into the future as well as what it means to be an artist."
"I think this definitely is perhaps the most Marvel Cinematic Universe Marvel movie best representation of what the MCU is."
"The Matrix Resurrections honors the legacy of the trilogy while also resonating as a deeply personal venture for Lana specifically."
"Lana Wachowski didn't come back to half-ass this sequel; it's meticulously well thought out and terrifically executed."
"It can be easy to define the Godzilla series as being made up of fun battles and enjoyable destruction, but Gojira is largely composed of quiet, sad scenes focused on humans either trying to understand Godzilla or suffering from its destruction."
"Dark Phoenix handles conflict so well and in such a powerful manner that at times it seems to rise even above Civil War."
"I remember when films used to be so good that people used to make long videos on YouTube analyzing...the hidden themes...whereas now, things have literally been spoon-fed to us."
"What if it's secretly a genius film about the radical power of learning?"
"I've avoided saying the word capitalism the whole video because it's painfully obvious that's what the opening of the film is trying to criticize."
"When you see how Wally doesn't touch, though, he respects her boundaries."
"It combined both the playful campiness but also epic sides of the character that many still credit as the original blueprint for most superhero films that followed."
"I believe that the original version of Ezekiel Sims in this movie was Sony's attempt to try to explain this whole EOS spidering concept."
"To call The Host a monster movie would be something of a misnomer since the monster in it isn't really the threat, but rather the panic, misrecognition, and cover-ups that surround it."
"I think that's what I appreciate the most about Director Bong, his unpretentious and non-discriminatory appreciation of all different types of genre fiction, regardless of their perceived quality."
"Barbie is an extremely sophisticated film, and if you don't see that, I'm sorry."
"Bamboozled is a 2000 film by Spike Lee that feels like it was made in 2025 because its subject matter and themes have never stopped being relevant."
"The opening scene in Inglourious Basterds... everything about it, just the sweat down the dude's head. I mean, it was just painted perfectly."
"One film in Pixar's catalogue truly shows us the dangers of the rampant consumerism in today's culture."
"The second thing benefit that the extra runtime gave the movie was an expanded understanding of the context."
"The movie is compassionate enough to peel back those layers and make her an actual character."
"Think of this video as a companion, not to discredit Mank, but to add to it or world-build its reality."
"All the satire was in the script from the beginning...All this ironic stuff, all this hyperbolic stuff, all this playing with fascism or fascist imagery, to point out certain aspects of American society, that was all in the script."
"Barbie ends with Margot Robbie reinstating a system of oppression with just superficial improvements before leaving to join the Matrix itself. Given that, which story do you think is the one we need?"
"The absence of a woman leaves this family of men to go animalistic and primal," exploring themes of gender and civility in horror films.
"It's the ultimate act of possession and can also be seen as a demonstration of the end of capitalism," analyzing the metaphorical implications of cannibalism.
"This movie is really, really layered, and it's done so on purpose."
"Between movies, Sarah Connor was allowed to do something rarely seen in big budget blockbusters: change."
"Nick and Judy have really good chemistry, and I enjoy watching them untangle this mystery together."
"Cruella is easily the most entertaining part of the movie, and I love her delicious malice."
"Joker is a deeply political movie but it isn't one interested in only giving lip service to one possible perspective."
"Joker does a tremendous job of illustrating very contemporary anxieties about class divided and marginalization in our current society."
"When will my life begin as a cute opener and then there's I see the light that's Disney magic baby!"
"If you took her out, would there still be a movie?"
"If you die in the matrix, you die for real. And that's what this little cut is reminding us. And this is shot Sakura, he's got sparks going on in the background."
"Brad Bird finds a way to take this strange story and actually connect it with real relatable emotions."
"We're watching a Kaufman movie so we can discover what we didn't know about it."
"This reveal does some good, it retroactively explains why Rey was so powerful in the Force."
"I just wanted to take a moment to commend the opening of this game."
"In A Clockwork Orange, we see the world through evil eyes."
"Think of Don Corleone, 'The Godfather'. So, okay, yes, technically he is not the villain in 'The Godfather', but still he's the head of an organized crime family."
"The movie only comes off as unbearably modern in a preachy, unoriginal way that's been done a thousand times already."
"It does for the 80s action movie a pretty good job of trying to be respectful of Chinese culture and society and characters."
"The open-ended arc... depending on an audience's interpretation of the film."
"All it took was one scene and it was done masterfully."
"The Barry story is the best part of the film."
"And once you're aware of it, you'll start to notice this theme permeates basically every single Pixar movie."
"Every frame is a canvas, and every review a journey."
"Everybody's like 'Star Wars, what a sexist film.' Princess Leia is the driving force behind the original Star Wars films."
"It's not about the destination with this movie, it's just about the journey."
"Despite being treated like crap, all of the stakes of this Mission are riding on McLovin."
"Years have passed since 1997, empires have risen and fallen, entire civilizations swept off the map, all having never found the answer to that one burning question: why did Disney's 'Hercules' underperform?"
"Zoë Kravitz told Empire magazine that 'The Batman' is 'an origin story for Selina.'"
"An entire movie can rest on something as subtle as this."
"Take a look at most memorable films, and you’ll find the protagonist making a key decision right at the center of the story."
"The film is about what it means to be human."
"I just feel like the tension and chemistry that these two actors had with one another was just so obvious from the start."
"Queer theory is a framework for examining movies that removes the 'default' gaze."
"But is Batman Forever a misunderstood masterpiece? In a way, yeah."
"The biggest difference between Casino Royale and everything that came before it is that in this film James Bond has a character arc."
"Both films clearly demonize non-white populations, a theme that permeated many American horror films of the early 20th century."
"Get Out is not only of its time it's really prescient."
"I can always tell that Kristen Stewart is working hard to perform these sometimes ridiculous lines in a way that makes sense internally for her."
"Disney Star Wars generally suffers still from the disease it contracted from JJ."
"But in both cases, yes even in [__] Solo we get a clearer idea of each character's relationship with the place they live in."
"There's so much thought, care, and purpose put into this film."
"Toby Maguire for me was always a great casting choice, especially when it comes to his take on Peter Parker."
"Say what you want about the Craft, but at least all the characters make mistakes."
"The Craft works and is so endearing because it's driven by its characters, not by its plot."
"Whether they're arguing that freedom comes from God or that freedom is a fun illusion, both films give us a great excuse to consider the theological, philosophical, and neurological arguments for freedom or the lack thereof."
"Seeing JK Simmons come back... that's so [expletive] smart."
"I loved that from a story mechanics perspective, making Quentin Beck a previous Tony Stark employee makes him Tony Stark ultimately for Peter."
"In a lot of ways tremors 4 is about going back to the basics of the franchise."
"I always find myself liking the old, wise, and heartwarming characters the most."
"It was beautiful and tragic and a gut punch."
"In movies like 'Die Hard,' every action has consequences that push the plot forward."
"There's so much to take from this Batman film that I have not experienced with any other Batman film before."
"It's a lot more interesting to talk about why we love or hate certain movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe."
"Infinity War showed us a villain that, yes I'm gonna say it, is better than Darth Vader."
"Greece 2 flopped at the box office and was trashed by critics. Maxwell Caulfield's career took a hit, but Michelle Pfeiffer's star continued to rise. Despite its failings, Greece 2 has developed a fan appreciation over time."
"Civil War is probably the ultimate example of that. It's a direct follow-up to both Age of Ultron and The Winter Soldier."
"The breakup of the Avengers from this film is what led to the vulnerability that Thanos exploited to win the Infinity War."
"For any successful whodunit murder mystery, the first step in understanding how it's even possible to pick the killer out from a crowd is to recognize that it will be the intention of the filmmakers to unconsciously clue us in on their identity."
"In Parasite, the bad guy isn't greedy rich people or murderous clowns, but a system that forces us to leech off of others to survive."
"Joker imagines what happens when the people at the bottom of the financial ladder are deprived of the most basic human needs and dignities."
"The tension between enthusiasm and fanaticism is what makes Joker such a compelling watch."
"With Parasite, the violence doesn't exist as some archaic or terrifying exception to the system; rather, it's a direct function of the system itself."
"Jurassic Park death scenes: Scenes where humans would get eaten alive were very frightening."
"This movie is a great example of the viewer also being able to question the intentions of everyone."
"The red balloons in the movie weren't scary, but you were certainly intimidated whenever they showed up."
"The Invitation becomes greater than the sum of its parts."
"The loss of Tony will change the MCU landscape for years to come."
"Watch those two films and give Jordan Peele's movies a rewatch because you'll find a different meaning in them every single time."
"Eyes Wide Shut is about control and the fear of losing it."
"There's a lot of scenes that are simultaneously funny but also very sad and I thought that was so unique and interesting."
"Michael Myers is not a character, he is a force of nature, he is not a person, he's part supernatural, part human, he's like the wind, he's an evil wind." - John Carpenter
"There's something symphonic about the movie in which all these interconnected parts always hit at the right moment."
"Jurassic Park is able to take so many complicated and moving pieces and make them work as a whole."
"The best thing about Kong '76 is the recontextualization of the classic Kong and relationship into something more innocent, tender, and reciprocal."
"The ambiguity surrounding Deckard's humanity is kind of the whole point."
"It's more reverent I think than it could have been... it takes most of the themes quite seriously."
"The poignancy of Eve and Kenny's last scene there was something in that that you know if she now knows it's their last moment together but there was something in that that I just I thought was so moving."
"In Do the Right Thing, the Dutch angles mirror the instability of the neighborhood, where racial tensions are threatening to boil over."
"Casino Royale is a deconstruction of Bond, with Vesper feeling like a fully formed co-lead, not just a Bond woman."
"Casino Royale did just that: it doesn't betray or dishonor what made the past films so great, but it does reach far above what EON had ever tried to do before."
"If Casino Royale was made in a vacuum and there were no Bond movies before or after it, I'd be saying the exact same thing."
"Nikki Blonsky does a good job with most of this movie, there are certain moments where I'm like what was that choice but I think a lot of it has to do with direction and the script."
"This movie managed to do at the other one it gave us both a young spider-man and a mess and it gave older that's spider boy and spider-man to give us older Peter Parker adult problems."
"What I like about Captain Marvel is also that you get a lot more out of his character."
"I thought Far From Home did the character of Mysterio justice and nailed it."
"Okay, let's start at the most obvious place and sift through all the references, easter eggs, and cameos to various media scattered throughout the movie."
"Jonathan Kent's death is one of the most emotionally resonant and profound character moments in any film in the genre."
"In Man of Steel, humanity plays an important part in their own salvation, contributing to the narrative in a unique way."
"The ending also addresses themes of redemption and second chances."
"But now, with the rise and fall of the First Order now complete and its story seemingly over, comes the opportunity to ask, did it live up to expectations?"
"This is the crux of the movie, it's a coming-of-age movie."
"In fact, one of the most clever and best scenes of the film is in the '50s diner."
"Mission Impossible was inspired by the film 'Top Cappy', most specifically its methodical and mainly dialogue-free approach to an elaborate heist sequence."
"This isn't just an action scene, this is storytelling."
"Again nearly every scene in this movie is doing at least two things at once, if not more."
"Every piece of information we're presented with here is immediately built on or juxtaposed in the very next scene which is actually really refreshing not even for a Disney movie but for the adventure genre in general."
"Treasure Planet starts us off with such a distinct juxtaposition of influence that everything else that introduces us to for the rest of the film both visually and aurally unquestionably belongs in that world."
"I loved the arc of Batman going from what he was in BvS to what he is in the end of this movie."
"The scope of the universe is as large as the personalities of the core cast, I don't say that in a negative light whatsoever."
"In a perfect world, a sequel gives us more of the stuff we love, and shows us our heroes and villains in even more depth and detail than before."
"Humans are imperfect, and the film wants to talk about what makes people do things that are violent or selfish and make you comprehend the reasons as to why the characters are the way they are."
"The game in the Seventh Seal makes no literal sense...Bergman was not concerned with the flow of the game so much as what each move truly meant on a deeper level."
"It's a well put together heist film that the main set pieces could come at the end."
"Bathos in Black Panther: instead of undercutting serious moments with humor, they juxtapose American language into African culture strategically."
"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - A deep and meaningful character study disguised as a comic book blockbuster."
"Iron Man 3 - One of the deepest most heartfelt installments of the entire franchise."
"The superhero genre right now is thriving because one superhero movie is not just like the next."
"Star Wars wasn't a complex film when it came out, but it was an extremely relatable story that all audiences could understand."
"But even more compelling than the gigantic sharkagator is the film's ambiguous ending."
"The villain is also a decisive element in a successful superhero movie..."
"There's enough ambiguity in there with Myers motivations that it's tolerable for me."
"Casablanca is a near-perfect movie that expertly blends action, romance, and drama."
"It's the perfect crime both in conception and execution and qubix take on the story plays like something of a procedural detailing the actions of each team member down to the minute."
"You are consistently better appraised of what's going on in Die Hard than any of the people actually in Die Hard."
"Every scene is very loaded with stuff to talk about."
"American Psycho came out in 2000 and has thankfully gained re-evaluation over the years due to its cult following."
"Quality over quantity... everything that a woman said in those movies that I have seen was important to the story was important to the dialogue was important to the character development."
"In 'Shutter Island,' nothing is as it seems on the eponymous island."
"This movie is Thanos's film. He is the main character and he gets a complete arc."
"If this movie succeeds at anything, it's fleshing out Thanos and showing you he's not just another CGI movie monster but an actual character with an amazing amount of depth."