Tweet-Length Capsules: The Last 12 Movies I've Seen

After the unpleasantness of November, I decided to take a much-needed break from social media, particularly Twitter where He Who Must Not Be Named manages to pop up all the time. Despite the vast improvement of my mental state during my mental vacation, I decided against my best interests to begin using the site again. And I figure since I'll be using the site I might as well get some use out of it by cribbing a feature from one of my fave critics, @NicksFlickPicks, who consolidates his movie thoughts into a single tweet. His are probably better written, but I thought I'd give it a try as a way to catch everyone up on what I've been seeing. Take a look after the jump:

The Neon Demon (16, C-) Kudos to the crafts team, and I guess there's not much like it right now. But its ugly and I was glad when it ended.

— Gina's Bald Sister (@LucasCraigW) December 16, 2016

Weiner (16, B) Valuable account of complicated media and personal entanglements of political life, probing and respecting subjects’ privacy.

— Gina's Bald Sister (@LucasCraigW) December 16, 2016

Krisha (15, C) Showoff-y aesthetic, awkward nonprofessionals, shifty gallows humor only underline limits and evasiveness. Fairchild's good.

— Gina's Bald Sister (@LucasCraigW) December 16, 2016

Arrival (16, A-) Barriers of cultural/human fear broken by links of circular enlightenment, bearing frissons of Scott, Resnais, and Wenders.

— Gina's Bald Sister (@LucasCraigW) December 16, 2016

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (16, B-/C+) For better and worse, artifice and hyperrealism duke it out. Big Short-ish snark; waves of pain.

— Gina's Bald Sister (@LucasCraigW) December 16, 2016

Doctor Strange (16, C+) Well shot. Solid stab at offbeat studio product. Lip service to mind-bending metaphysics can't loosen film's own id.

— Gina's Bald Sister (@LucasCraigW) December 16, 2016

The Edge of Seventeen (16, B) Dark, hilarious, Roos-esque portrait of teenage disarray without losing focus, affection, or bite. Steinfeld!

— Gina's Bald Sister (@LucasCraigW) December 16, 2016

Loving (16, B) I admired this film and its humble, laconic social justice, which only made me crave a deeper inquiry. Negga lifts it high.

— Gina's Bald Sister (@LucasCraigW) December 16, 2016

Moonlight (16, A) The year's most memorable character(s), barely happy or together, finds solitude and connection, escape and entrapment.

— Gina's Bald Sister (@LucasCraigW) December 16, 2016

Nocturnal Animals (16, D-) Makes Neon Demon look infinitely more subtle and bearable to watch by comparison. Vacuous, confronting, hateful.

— Gina's Bald Sister (@LucasCraigW) December 16, 2016

Other People (16, B) A weepy-funny surprise! Earns insights, laughs, empathy through sharp, concise scene structure and winning ensemble.

— Gina's Bald Sister (@LucasCraigW) December 16, 2016

Little Men (B+/B) Fewer peaks than Sachs' last, but equally sweet, nuanced, and moving about Brooklyn living. Two young leads are superb.

— Gina's Bald Sister (@LucasCraigW) December 16, 2016