To a MUCH lesser extent, this is how I feel about The Strokes as well. “Last Nite” is a banger and Is This It is fine, but they’re a band that the Coastal “influencers” fawned over way more than people actually listened to and cared for.

Seeing the TL now and this is quite an unoriginal take, but I don’t know how may people realize how rare it is to have 5 classics in your filmography; nevertheless to have them all in a row. All 5 of these films are masterpieces, and that doesn’t count all of the other great work he did. Legend.

It ultimately is probably going to be fine, but going for it on 4th and 3 just led to Browns points. Do the dumb, simple things correct first. Stop trying to prove you’re the smartest guy on the field.

Johnson always puts larger ideas into these movies, but what he did with religion, how it’s intertwined in American politics and the stories we tell ourselves I thought made Wake Up Dead Man the best installment in the Knives Out series. This is my second favorite film of his behind Looper.

Two critics from Variety recently posted their Top 10 lists, and shockingly neither of them included Sinners. Yet the latest Mission: Impossible got recognized.

I get there’s a trolling art to list-making, but there’s also a fine of rationality that you shouldn’t cross.