In praise of some of the great bad movies of 2019.
There are several movies that came out this year that I personally love but recognize to be too idiosyncratic in one way or another to be universally recommended. One of the tough things about putting together a Top 10 list is figuring out how to define “best.
, espouse some problematic ideas despite Zahler’s insistence that his movies aren’t political. But his latest work, which stars Vince Vaughn and Mel Gibson as two cops who turn to vigilantism after being suspended for brutalizing a suspect, is a grim wonder. It’s Zahler at his most Zahler-esque, moving at exactly the speed Zahler wants it to, i.e., at the speed of molasses.
A detour planted in the center of the film illustrates this principle perfectly. Jennifer Carpenter plays a new mother suffering from postpartum depression, and her introduction, which depicts her struggle to leave her baby and go to work, is wrenching. She wavers back and forth, again and again, before finally leaving. When she finally arrives at work, it’s only to be slaughtered by bank robbers. It’s awful to watch and a sequence I hated when I first saw it.
Then again, I have become known amongst my colleagues as a champion of bad taste, or, as I think of it,
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