She Also Found It at the Movies

My favorite movies review was for a film in the late 90s. The name of the film escapes me, but at the time it had full page ad in the paper with quotes from the review. It said “Watching X like a beach vacation”.

I randomly stumbled upon the full review and the rest of the line was “… and you’re not invited”.

I get this. Often I'll watch a film that seems just "so so". Then, I'll read a review and gain a new appreciation for the film. I'll see things in the film I'd previously missed and understand it in new ways.

Richard Brody of The New Yorker and Ebert's website are particular favorites of mine.

Maybe you just like reading stuff more than watching stuff.

I feel similar, but haven't seen a "film" worth a review in ages. It's always the same problems: glacially slow pacing, one-dimensional characters, dialogue and plot insist on injecting politics or memes (that are probably stale by the time it's released), etc.

Do you have any recommendations that aren't that? I just want to watch a real movie made in the last 20 years.

Do you only read autobiographies, and by extension, blog posts/novels/etc. by people you morally agree with?

You did not put quote marks (and were not literal in quoting), so we may interpret that you would not accept advice from non kind people (what?!).

Besides the basic logic that it should be advice from people with good judgement that one should accept, what should instead be revealing and a red alert is

> her enthusiasm for Jean-Luc Godard’s lesser works

Because she was smart, and her reviews will make you think.

Does one often use this basis for consuming autobiographies? I'd rather think the common cause for reading an autobiography is because it is interesting, or because the person is interesting, or notable to history in some way, and you want more insight into their life and way of thinking. I'm admittedly not much for autobiographies myself, and the only memoir I actively chose to read was Napoleon's, but my choice to read it certainly wasn't because I thought he was a kind person.