Bill Simmons values the film for its lucid and explicit communication of the specific sociosexual anxieties and domestic pressures facing Millennials.
“it’s easily one of my favorite films of the year so far, which I will discuss at length on The Big Picture later this week.”
Bill Simmons highlights this as the successful debut that launched the Touchstone brand and Tom Hanks as a star.
“The first film under the Touchstone banner was Ron Howard’s Splash, a fizzy spin on a mermaid’s tale that launched Tom Hanks as a film star”
Bill Simmons notes this as a fascinating title among the early unsuccessful efforts by Disney to release adult-themed films.
“among them Tron and Carroll Ballard’s fascinating Never Cry Wolf”
Bill Simmons views this film as a thematic and textual mirror match for The Odyssey, showing he values Nolan's recent trajectory.
“It’s also a thematic and textual mirror match with his previous film, Oppenheimer.”
Bill Simmons values the film for proving that large-scale, practical, and adult-oriented storytelling can achieve massive commercial success.
“Today I’m exploring the eruptive wellspring of feeling I got watching Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and how ecstatic it made me for the short-term future of movie culture.”
Bill Simmons values this film for its abrasive sound design and the remarkable, agonizing performance delivered by Inde Navarette.
“It knocked me out the first time, knowing little more than the fact that it was riding some post-festival hype out of Toronto last September.”
Bill Simmons recommends this film because he finds it quite powerful and worth the viewer's time.
“The film is quite powerful and worth your time, and the chat’s good too.”
Bill Simmons values this title because he contributed to a special feature included in the new Criterion release.
Bill Simmons values this film as a victory for collectors who successfully lobbied for its 4K physical media release.
“I patted myself (and all of you) on the back for demanding and receiving a 4K release of Zach Cregger’s Barbarian”
Bill Simmons names his newsletter after a manifesto written by the film's protagonist.
“This inaugural post is named after the infamous manifesto that Jerry Maguire writes over one feverish night about the state of his work in Cameron Crowe’s midlife crisis masterpiece.”
