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Micro-Reviews 2025

Movie, music, theater, and art micro-reviews from 2025.

Pigen med nålen

Magnus von Horn’s 2024 Pigen med nålen

Sadly, i don’t think Pigen med nålen is a good movie.

Movie Theater

Micro-Reviews 2024

Collecting Micro-Reviews originally published on Instagram, Mastodon, and Letterboxd.

Conclave

Edward Berger’s 2024 Conclave

Thoroughly enjoyable movie with some weaknesses.

The Substance

Coralie Fargeat’s 2024 The Substance

Your mileage may vary.

Tystnaden

Ingmar Bergman’s 1963 Tystnaden

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

Ridley Scott’s 2024 Gladiator II

It’s not great but it’s good. It’s entertaining. It’s fine!

Architecton

Viktor Kossakovsky’s 2024 Architecton

Not much to chew on beyond impressive cinematography, music, and sound design.

Mistakes by the River

Wei Shujun’s 河边的错误 [He bian de cuo wu/Mistake(s) by the River]

Welcome to Wei’s postmodern neo-noir period mystery rabbit hole.

The Zone of Interest

Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest

An extraordinary movie that is, and should be, deeply disturbing.

Dune

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune and Dune: Part Two

A treat you don’t want to miss.

ノルウェイの森

Trần Anh Hùng’s ノルウェイの森 [Noruwei no Mori/Norwegian Wood]

An enjoyable movie worthy of a better script.

The Fifth Element

Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element

A collection of enormously silly adolescent fantasies, but entertaining.

How Do Y'all Live?

Miyazaki Hayao’s 君たちはどう生きるか [How Do Y’all Live?]

Seven years of development are more than enough for a script to lose focus.

Perfect Days

Wim Wenders’s Perfect Days

If, at the end, you don’t know whether to be joyful or sad, you’re in good company.

The Beekeeper

David Ayer’s The Beekeeper

The exact dose of gratuitously violent popcorn entertainment I was looking for.

The Name of the Rose

Jean-Jacques Annaud’s The Name of the Rose

The book holds up well, the movie not so much.

Napoleon

Ridley Scott’s Napoleon

Sadly, it left me cold from the first scene to the last.

ゴジラ-1.0 [Gojira Mainasu Wan]

Yamazaki Takashi’s『ゴジラ-1.0』[Gojira Mainasu Wan]

Hands down one of the best movies in Tōhō’s Kaijū franchise.

Phantasm

Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm

For what the movie wants to be, it’s pretty darn good.