# Reviews

Because when you love someone the way the world came to love Bourdain, the last thing you should do is flatten them into a monument. The braver move is to show them being spectacularly, recognizably human.

What’s at stake? It is perhaps the single most important question when writing a story, be it a novel, screenplay, or newspaper article. What is at stake in the story?

Zhao and Zal masterfully interpreted this omniscient literary narration into an all-seeing camera that gives the film the sense that something bigger than us is always watching.

It’s unexpected, it’s honest, and it’s the funniest outcome that sets the tone for an emotional rollercoaster of an evening.

It was horrifying and beautiful and in that split second, I learned something about myself. And isn’t that why we go to the movies?

Only after he was on the other side filming at a particular angle, he saw the thin thread he somehow missed that would have set off explosives.

Look, I know she's dead, but I have a new crush on Joan Fontaine ...

Needs more muppets.

The real horror is having unannounced houseguests.

Throughout the fest, a crew of dedicated movie nerds make each and every screening an experience unto itself.

Rachel Sennott is palpably talented and an undisputed future star of our generation.

A timeless cautionary tale of universities placing undue significance on football, our infatuation with popularity, and callous racism, inevitably leading to guerilla warfare by rebels.

As the movie goes on, Pacino grows more and more facial hair until it envelops him, and he suffocates to death.

It’s not CGI. We buy it because seeing is believing.

By the end, it felt like I had an affair with Glenn Close.