Jon Roth

The most important lesson to be learned from Vince Gilligan’s incredible new show PLURIBUS is that the ultimate key to survival in a scary world is owning physical media.

Amazing game that has made me want to throw myself out a window many, many times

At the Oasis show - 50% of the people here are dressed like the dudes from the end of 28 YEARS LATER

Could someone just pay me to watch movies, please?

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hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot

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Some impossible missions with a dash of rageful zombies!

Jon Roth’s profile Jon Roth uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 1,446 films watched. Favorites: Frances Ha (2012), The Dark Knight (2008), The Social Network (2010), Tampopo (1985). Bio: A regular at The Mu...

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What a week at @chicagocritics.bsky.social !!!

A ★★★½ review of A Little Prayer (2023) Closing Film of the Chicago Critics Film Festival 2025 "You know what they'd call us back home? Kindred spirits." Director Angus MacLachlan said during the Q&A for A Little Prayer that among other thi...

A LITTLE PRAYER

Closing Film of the Chicago Critics Film Festival 2025

"You know what they'd call us back home? Kindred spirits."

A ★★★ review of Desert Road (2024) "Regret's a funny thing. It lingers." As noted by Steve Prokopy at the Music Box when introducing Desert Road, it's a funny coincidence the festival ended playing both this and It Ends. Both films dea...

DESERT ROAD

"Regret's a funny thing. It lingers."

A ★★★ review of Zodiac Killer Project (2025) An interesting concept for a movie… the death of a Zodiac killer documentary is reborn as the bones for a meta documentary about true crime documentaries while also detailing what the original move wo...

ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT

The death of one movie becomes the life of another in this interesting, funny meta documentary.

A ★★★★½ review of Happyend (2024) "It's wrong to follow a society that's wrong." Happyend is a truly excellent coming of age film set in a near future Tokyo against the backdrop of sensationalist fascism. It starts with a predicted ea...

HAPPYEND

"It's wrong to follow a society that's wrong."

Chicago Critics Film Festival 2025 Day 6 and 7 Thread! Four wonderful films, starting with my surprise favorite of the festival and capped off by a lovely closing film featuring a final scene that nearly brought tears to my eyes.

A ★★★★ review of OBEX (2025) "What does your heaven look like?" "Just a day at the beach with my dog." Obex is a hallucinatory, campy, nightmarish homage to the early days of video games. Set in 1987, our hero is Conor, a 36 year...

OBEX

"What does your heaven look like?"
"Just a day at the beach with my dog."

A ★★★ review of Fantasy Life (2025) "Your privilege makes you undeserving of care?" Fantasy Life is a well performed story about a lonely man who shuffles in and out of the lives of a lonely married couple who are all dealing with their...

FANTASY LIFE

"Your privilege makes you undeserving of care?"

Chicago Critics Film Festival 2025 Day 5 Thread! Saw two films: one a well performed character drama about lonely people in New York City, one a man entering a video game to save his dog, who is a very good dog.

A ★★ review of Sister Midnight (2024) "Are you sad?" "This is the face god painted me." The lone disappointment of the festival so far. On Day 2 of the CCFF '25 we had Twinless, an excellent film that a short while in evolves into what th...

SISTER MIDNIGHT

"Are you sad?"
"This is the face god painted me."

A ★★★★½ review of Sorry, Baby (2025) "Can I sit behind you?" "Why?" "It'd be like I'm hugging you." What a knockout of a feature debut from writer/director/actor Eva Victor. Sorry, Baby is a non-linear story about Agnes, played by Victor...

SORRY, BABY

"Can I sit behind you?"
"Why?"
"It'd be like I'm hugging you."

Chicago Critics Film Festival 2025 Day 4 Thread! Saw two films: one with a taste for emotion and healing, the other a taste for blood and living.

A ★★★½ review of It Ends (2025) A really confident debut feature that, confirmed by the filmmaker during our Q&A, attempted to mix the horror genre with a Linklater-esque hangout movie. The film succeeds on this front - I appreciate...

IT ENDS

A really confident, intense debut from Alexander Ullom.

A ★★★★½ review of Friendship (2024) "You all accepted me way too fast. You can't do that!" Look. I'm a simple guy. I saw the trailer for this and thought "Wow, this looks like someone made an I Think You Should Leave sketch with a great...

FRIENDSHIP

"You all accepted me way too fast. You can't do that!"

A ★★★★ review of The Great Dictator (1940) Charlie Chaplin's final monologue from The Great Dictator, presented without edits: "I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I sho...

THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940)

My review is just the full, unedited monologue at the end of the film that is a writing masterclass and should be experienced by everyone at least once in their life.

Chicago Critics Film Festival 2025 Day 3 Thread! Saw three films: one by the master Charlie Chaplin that had one of the all time great monologues, one an anxiety inducing, stomach churning laugh fest with Tim Robinson, and lastly a tense Gen-Z horror hangout roadtrip. @chicagocritics.bsky.social

How there isn't one is crazy to me!

A ★★★★½ review of Strange Days (1995) "Memories are meant to fade. They're designed that way for a reason." Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett being complete badasses? Juliette Lewis playing the thrasher singer of every young person with an...

STRANGE DAYS (1995)

"Memories are meant to fade. They're designed that way for a reason."

A ★★★★½ review of Twinless (2025) "You know how they say just be yourself? Which version? There are two deceptions at the heart of Twinless, the thoroughly entertaining new film from James Sweeney. The latter I won't spoil, but the fi...

TWINLESS

"You know how they say just be yourself? Which version?"

Chicago Critics Film Festival 2025 Day 2 Thread! Saw just two films but each were absolute bangers. @chicagocritics.bsky.social

A ★★★½ review of Best Wishes to All (2023) “Are you happy?” Best Wishes to All is a nasty little Japanese horror film. The film’s world declares that believes true happiness cannot be achieved unless it is siphoned from other people… literally...

BEST WISHES TO ALL

“Are you happy?”