Jackson Weaver

Ive been super into Lee Edelman’s No Future/the dangerous trend of interpreting the featureless “child” as a deindividualized embodiment of a future we value over the present. Weapons gestured at a comment on that, but then it’s thrown out for the spectacle. But the spectacle is SO GOOD I didnt mind

Lenore Skenazy is one of the most interesting people alive imo

My Weapons review: HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH??!!??!! ahahhahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHhhahHahhHahHhdhfownydiwbeheidndb 10/10 gold star

Lurker is insane, and also basically two separate movies in one. It’s equal parts Saltburn and Blink Twice — but also Mid90s and Fear. Mix Almost Famous with Killing of a Sacred Dear and you get somewhere close and given how nonsensical that combo is it’s really freaking me out how good it turns out

Bringing Sexy Back Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.

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Despite how bad it was, I don’t think anyone truly hates Megalopolis — or agrees with how insultingly, stupidly, disgustingly terrible it was — as much as me

Superman has a problem — and it's not the film's commentary on immigration | CBC News James Gunn's new Superman movie hits theatres this week. While fun, it is also something of a mess.

I didn’t like Superman (the movie). But I also don’t like Superman (the character). So your mileage may vary, but a return to campy silliness is actually a bad thing to me — though the only way Superman (the character) “works”

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I say this as someone who loved Elio: the most important and pressing issue in world events right now is that someone at Pixar absolutely, direly needs to leak the Molina cut

At least current case (Elio) I think a large reason is people avoiding shame from “audiences failed original movies” by blaming irrelevant art styles instead. But I think there is a strong, strong case to be made that “should’ve been me” is exactly why John K came up with the term in the first place

What's the 'bean mouth' problem some critics say caused Pixar's Elio to flop? | CBC News Pixar's newest film Elio earned the studio its worst opening weekend box-office result of all time. Some critics blame the movie's 'bean mouth' look for the failure, but is that really the reason it d...

I am once again asking you to please go watch Elio

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Yes I’m basic

Headline reading: How To Train Your Dragon Box Office Hits Huge Milestone In Week 2, Climbs Even Higher Up 2025 Top 10

Headline reading: ‘Lilo & Stitch’ Box Office Mayhem: All the Records Broken as Pic Zooms Past $400M Globally

Headline reading: With ‘Elio,’ Pixar Has Its Worst Box Office Opening Ever

Comic panel reading: I am tired of earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.

We are getting low effort, lowest-common-denominator corporate sludge forever as animation and original storytelling will die. People make me legitimately so sad

Elio gang rise up

Pixar's alien-obsessed Elio is beautiful, brilliant and doomed | CBC News This space-exploration flick that highlights Pixar's fluidly beautiful animation style is anything but conventional — it's a joyous, tragic, miracle of creativity. What's sad is how unlikely it is to ...

I say this with zero exaggeration: I would die for #Elio

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I love this movie so hard

In Banff, Canadian film and TV industry climb twin peaks of sky-high anxiety and cautious optimism Executives, producers and filmmakers at the Banff World Media Festival face a sobering industry

In between sneaking quick peeks at the peaks or spotting a trio of bears roaming the golf course – an on-the-nose metaphor for the market if there ever was one – the Banff World Media Festival offered a front-row seat to an industry on the knife’s edge. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/ar...

In Brad Pitt's F1 movie, the racing scenes sizzle. Just ignore the silly human drama | CBC News While a little clunky, there is little to nothing F1 actually does outrageously wrong. And given the heart-pounding race scenes, that's enough to make this dad movie stand out.

#F1TheMovie used the hell out of Imax, but ignored everything else. The tropification of racing movies gets even weirder here in subverting the self-destruction/self-acceptance metaphor into fable about how if you’re not first, you actually are last.

Now go watch Elio

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I cried three times during this fing movie

Not seen yet, but Elio having the most cursed release (delayed over a year), marketing (almost nonexistent) & wildly unsure demo (for tweens or 5 year olds?) make it feel like another Meet the Robinsons. A movie that was innovative & ruled, but was aimed at no one— leading to a (now beloved) failure

A24 reveals Celine Song’s references for ‘MATERIALISTS’ — including:

• ‘Pride & Prejudice’
• ‘Atonement’
• ‘Emma’
• ‘Phantom Thread’

Watch F1 The Movie - Apple TV⁠+ Racing legend Sonny Hayes is coaxed into leading a struggling Formula 1 team—and mentoring a young hotshot driver—while chasing one last chance at red…

The more I learn about F1, the more excited I become that the plot for all intents and purposes seriously just appears to be Talladega Nights again.

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We are so back

…the only extrapolation is into never listening to personal reason over religious instruction: “put your questions on the shelf” type messages. Which are grosser, more destructive and more prescient — an alleged case happened literally this week. A movie that says “push on” just seems ill-informed

It’s also helped by being actually good as a movie — it is a story, told artfully, that actually has a narratively interested and worthwhile layer. The Ritual does not seem to operate on any deeper level or as an allusion; its lessons are barbed and pointed at the specificities of exorcism…

I haven’t watched Friedkin’s in a long time. But from my memory/context, The Exorcist used its central ghost story more as a metaphor/way in to feelings of guilt and loss in general and in Karras’ character. He feels doomed by his lack of faith, and finds a sort of redemption in his last moments…

I really did not like it when I first saw it at tiff. My reaction thawed on my second viewing and now I’m not entirely sure how I feel about it at all. Honestly might need to watch it a third time, which — whether or not it’s good — has to say something

The Al Pacino-led exorcism thriller The Ritual is vile. Not just for its horror, but its message | CBC News The Ritual, the new Al Pacino-led exorcism thriller, is vile. Not just for its horror, but for its message.

Hiss! Hiss boo hiss bad!! Bad! www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

Oh I still haven’t even watched it for the first time! Everything I see seems to be warnings about how terrible watching it makes you feel. But I also wonder if it’s good enough artistically to warrant getting through that — and whether I should just see it so I’m more well-rounded as a critic

I have been wondering whether I should watch this for probably five years now. Both intrigued and scared

TFCA Friday: Week of May 30 - Toronto Film Critics Association Movie reviews for Two Women; Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day; Bring Her Back; Bono: Stories of Surrender; Sabbath Queen; and more!

In this week's round-up, our members review new releases including TWO WOMEN, BRING HER BACK, and BEAUTIFUL EVENING, BEAUTIFUL DAY, plus take a look at the Canadian Screen Awards, Blue Mountain Film Festival, and the NFB's new strategic plan torontofilmcritics.com/features/tfc...