- Sensibility: Ridiculous in a wonderfully sensible way.
- Cinematography: If the long-format, oner style shot wasn't enough, the film is dressed in the most incredible production design and beautiful lighting choices. The camerawork and scene choreography are of the highest caliber.
- Energy: The pairing of the oner-format and a brilliant score makes the whole film feel rhythmic. Absolutely electric.
- Narrative: Undeniably brilliant writing that is somehow both deep and self-aware. The variations on the scenes in each repeat showing of the play pairs brilliantly with the transformation of the characters.
- T-Points: The film received five bonus points: one for a comment about how a woman did "look like she licked a homeless man's ass" and the entire exchange in the bar, one for the lighting, framing, and color-grading in a scene with Sam in a side-room of the theater with a bar area, one for a second roof-top scene, one for an exchange around a Macbeth quote, one for incredibly variation on a finale scene of the play, and one for a set of scenes with an ex-wife in a dressing room,
Wonderful palette cleanser after a horrible in-theater experience watching Send Help (2026). This is Keaton at his best. The whole cast puts on life-time performances within a story that is brilliant through and through.
Number of Watches: 2
