This film is a masterpiece. I am so grateful I got to see it on opening day and share that I believe it is a film that everyone who loves movies will enjoy and even treasure. And anyone who is an outdoorsman/woman - from a simple trout stream fishing trip to an Alaskan or global adventure, will absolutely love this film. This is Leo DiCaprio‘s The Revenant, and Robert Redford‘s Jeremiah Johnson. I wish Robert Redford were still alive to see it as he was instrumental early in Brad’s career casting him in his film A River Runs Through It, and I believe he would love and respect it, too.From the opening beats this film captures you, and some of it even has you on the edge of your seat, with total immersion into the life and relationship between the two lead characters - Pitt and his canine best friend, Odin. Their chemistry is truly remarkably well done. All the elements are here in harmony, the music cinematography, natural beauty, and danger, of the world’s topography and the acting is just incredible. Almost the entire movie is just the two lead characters on screen. And I never had a moment where my attention wandered or I wasn’t just blown away by how involved in the story and filmmaking I was.Congratulations and thank you to the filmmakers and everyone involved who brought this film to life. It is a sincerely rendered cinematic experience.

In the past I loved using rotten tomatoes to get information on which movies to see in theaters, compare ratings or get a picture of what it was I was about to see. However since rotten tomatoes changed their mobile website to simply display an add for their unnecessary app with no way of using the website it’s self I find myself struggling to not resent the decision and the developers, moving away from rotten tomatoes out of spite. Having come up against this unnecessary inconvenience several times which was always frustrating and usually ruined my rotten tomatoes experience, I decided to download the app that Rotton Tomatoes was forcing me to get to simply view what’s on their web page. I downloaded the app, tried to connect my Google acct several times which didn’t work, and finally created an account just so I could see if Blonde had a good critic review score. That should have take 15 stress free seconds instead of two minutes hating every second of it. Complete waste of phone space and time on this precious earth forced by developers pushing an unnecessary app for what is simply an informative website. If we needed every website to be its own app experience, then why does my phone have Chrome?

Times have changed , we are more influenced by social media than any magazine. I can’t remember the last time I bought a magazine , I used to have multiple subscriptions. Those days are gone. In this movie we visit old friends who’ve aged beautifully, the thing that makes this movie good is that no matter what pithy quip comes out of their mouth , the four main characters, Miranda, Andy , Nigel , and Emily , really see each other and they really love what they see. The four main characters are truly talented , in a way that AI could and will never be. That is the sad underlying story here. With all the talent in the world , all the heart , all the insight into what we as humans might need or want next , can we not succumb to AI? Or will tasteless narcissists take over ? Let the Hunger Games begin , that’s another story . But is it ?The Devil Wears Prada 2 gives us a thread of hope . Which I’ll happily take . Pat Fields styling is missed a bit , her protégé Molly Rogers gives us couture , but there are a few misses most notably a Dries Van Noten tassel jacket on Miranda . And there is discussion about Andy’s cerulean sweater vest in the closing scene , (which I loved as much as if my favorite puppy had come back to life . ) In the end it’s giving simply “Don’t give up humankind will find a way “5 stars

I’ve been hoping for a dedicated Rotten Tomatoes app for years. Something distinctly separate from Flixster. So I was very glad when this app officially launched loud and proud.That said this app needs some work. Right now the app feels like it’s caught in between being a movie news hub, with articles and videos and trailers, and a place to write reviews. Right now the balance is off and it’s not working. One thing that was odd, a couple of my reviews were restricted and not able to be posted because they violated the community guidelines. But the reviews and question had neither harsh language or explicit language at all, this was truly puzzling. The app heals, rigid and limiting. This should be a competitor for Letterboxd and even IMDb, but that’s not the case. The profiles are extremely limited, there should be options for bio and profile pictures even links. There’s a real opportunity here to be robust and it’s not there yet. I appreciate the effort and this launch, but at this point, I’m forcing myself to engage with the app simultaneously posting a review and letterboxd copy and paste and then posting it here I’m not drawn to this yet. I want this app to succeed. I hope the developers take some time, take another swing at this app and make it even better.