Reddock

78/100 Used to be very cynical so this was right up my alley and I really needed a movie right now about the anxiety and uncertainty about the future and how some friendships come to end. Great stuff.

60/100 Very much an important film, as many people still don't know shit about Tourette's, with the reaction to the BAFTA controversy being the prime example. Thought it would be good to watch this with my dad, and I quickly found out he didn't know much about it either. He knows about it, but not so much the swearing version of it. This is an enjoyable, crowd-pleasing biopic on the life of John Davidson. The film is consistently funny and charming, even despite falling into the schematics of typical great-lives biopics and sometimes feeling a bit too repetitive. The cinematography does feel merely functional, and the score is distractingly generic. One scene early on, where it should feel devastating and sad, instead loses impact because the score is distractingly overbearing and gives off the wrong tone. Robert Aramayo is genuinely fantastic in the leading role, with his mannerisms and acting feeling incredibly on point. The other actors are also great, making the film as watchable as it is. The third act feels way too clumsy and cutesy for my liking, and the scene with him testing out the new tech feels like an advertisement, but overall, I had a good time despite my many reservations.

62/100 Don't know if this is the ideal start for getting into Reichardt's filmography but I had a neat time. I wasn't too big on both the usage of voiceover and to how the dialogue sounds, but I slowly grew to like it more and more. I like the scuzzy atmosphere of it and its introspection and dreamy feel. It has the vibe of a debut but there's things in it that are interesting and worth watching. What interests me even more is that this is way different than her other features so that'll be interesting water to tread.

66/100 Hard to hate something this nice and easy to watch. Toni Colette and Thomas Haden Church (who's wonderfully goofy in this) have a nice chemistry and while the film does go in different places outside of its central mystery, it helps when the characters are this charming. The film doesn't move the needle or impresses in its technical aspects, but I could use one of these once in a while as they're like breezy comfort food. I definitely needed more out of the main mystery as how it resolves feels incomplete. There's years worth of questions worth asking between these characters and yet it disappointingly doesn't answer any of them. This isn't to say that this film lands with a thump though as I'm won over by both Colette's acting in the climax, which is great and easily steals the show, and the cozy ending that wraps it all up nicely.