Beanbioca
As Good As It Gets
Pacionsbo
Absolutely Fantastic
Dynamixor
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Billy Ollie
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Jim Smith
This is one messed up movie.It starts off normal enough - boy and girl, best friends as children, are torn apart when her mother takes her away to have her singing career managed.Years later, she is a huge star and he's still a shlub working at a framing shop in his small town. He longs for her. She has some mental issues. A number of different ways, interesting ways, this thing could have gone.But no.Instead, it turns into a pseudo-existential ham-handedly symbolic art film with a few disturbing and embarrassingly film school moments. Neither character really touches you because they just don't seem real -- she's too screwed up to understand and he seems scared by everything.If there was a message somewhere in here, it's lost on me.