Michael Knowles

The one that I thought actually was quite interesting was Marty Supreme.

I thought Marty Supreme featured characters that were wildly unlikable, but it had something in kind of the same way that the movie with Adrian Brody last year.

What was the name of that?

The Brutalist.

In the same way that it was sort of, yeah, in the same way that I did not like it, but it was interesting.

Marty Supreme I liked more, but it was similarly interesting.

It was trying to say some things, and Chalamet's performance is in fact fantastic.

It is a really, really good performance.

I wonder what you thought the best picture of this lackluster bunch was.

And it kind of reminded me of Drew, Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, right?

Yeah.

If you watch Marty Supreme and you watch Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, it's hitting a lot of the same notes about the corrupting nature of trying to seek success in society above your morality.

This one actually has a bizarrely happy ending, which I wasn't sort of expecting, that at the very end it's like he achieves his dream and then he becomes a decent person seems to be the implication at the very end.

I just saw that.

I mean, that's right.

When I look at the slate of films this year, there were somewhere when I read the log line, I was like, I feel like this could be interesting.

And then it just really was disappointing.

The biggest one that was like that for me was Hamnet.

I'm a sucker for that sort of stuff.

And so the fact that I found Hamnet intensely irritating and self-congratulatory was annoying to me because, again, when it comes to pretentious art that references literature I love, I'm all in for that, baby.