The Dangers of Not Locking In.
To deny who you are is to kill yourself, slowly and everyday. A potent trans allegory infused with so much humanity, soul, and personal vision that it stretches beyond just being about the trans/queer experience and into what it means to be human. The mastery of tone and pacing on display proves Jane Schoenbrun is going to go down as one of our generation great auteurs. Somehow someone can say the line “I drank the…

Every time my theater rumbled from the adventures happening on Pandora next door, I hated this movie just a little more. 

Introducing Charlie mid jerk off sesh is bad, having it give him a heart attack is worse, but a bucket of fried chicken being introduced like a horror villain was when I really knew I was in for a rough 2 hours (how did the 3hr Babylon feel shorter?!). It’s clear Arronofsky thinks of himself as Lynch making The…