In this section of our Colossus Movie Guide for X, we talk about themes that help us understand the film and the key shots that help elucidate those themes. Cast How X works as a metafilm There’s a really cool…

The Quick Explanation Triangle of Sadness is about economic systems and the roles people have within those systems. Whether it’s on a yacht, or in a sudden, makeshift community that’s not reliant on money as we know it. The overall…

Bodies Bodies Bodies has been one of the biggest movies of 2022. And being the most popular slasher film on Letterboxd in the month of October, I thought it would be a good time to visit the film and try…

The Quick Explanation Crimes of the Future can be overwhelming to figure out when you’re in the details of everything. But when you zoom out, the story is quite simple. It’s about acceptance of the new and tension with the…

What is the point of Barbarian? Barbarian is a three chapter story that explores a particular aspect of the female experience—specifically, what it means to interact with men and the way in which men interact with women. The potential danger…

The Quick Explanation Three Thousand Years of Longing is about isolation and connection and the way stories serve to bridge the gap between those two things. The stories we tell ourselves, those we share with others, and those we listen…

The Quick Explanation Narratively, the dynamic between Addy and Red is a tragic one. Addy is an underdog story, rising from the world of the tethered into the upper echelons. It’s heroic in the same way of entrepreneurs who come…

This is an important article for me. Because Magnolia is, like…my favorite movie. Ever. It was the movie that kickstarted my love of cinema. I’ve been infatuated with Paul Thomas Anderson ever since, and have always loved writing about his…

The Quick Explanation Enemy is Denis Villeneuve’s Fight Club. Except it’s less explicit than Fight Club. It opts to show more than tell. So you never get the big, definitive reveal that Adam and Anthony are the same person the…

The Indian film RRR opened to record box office success earlier this year, and then proceeded to amass a worldwide cult following after its Netflix debut in May—and it’s easy to see why. It’s an incredible spectacle of a film…

What is Nope about? Nope is essentially Jaws in the sky. The UFO is like a shark. It gets hungry and feeds on what it comes across, whether that’s people or horses or statues of horses. In that sense, Nope…