Films like this… intimidate me. As someone who writes about
every new movie I watch, I certainly don’t make it a habit of hiding my true
feelings in regards to pretty much anything I’ve written about here, whether I
love it, hate it, or walked away unfathomably bored. But my come-up as part of
the wider YouTube angry critic scene has definitely influenced how I approach
all of those features. If something is bad, I hold no qualms in outlying every
single way it has failed… but what about the opposite? What about those films
that are just so engaging, so well-crafted, so endearingly good?
Surely, a film that is entirely positive is an impossible
thing; no film is perfect, and even with films I love, I usually bring up even
the most minor of issues to keep things balanced. Then there comes a film like
Knives Out where, no matter how hard I strain my grey matter, I struggle to
find fault in what it presents. I don’t know if this film is indeed perfect,
but holy shit, it's so damn close that there's nary a difference.
