In a platform release this could go the way of Suspiria so I can see them going straight wide, esp. since The Witch performed surprisingly well. Maybe a concentrated opening in like ~800 theaters to get both a wide release and a strong enough PTA that it doesn't immediately fall off a cliff.
I was shocked by how little Duck Soup did for me. Just no connection really. It's telling that the scene I liked by far the best was the wordless mirror routine. I'll keep trying with the Marxes though, maybe I'll see the light yet.
Since I feel like making a shameless plug, I wrote a thing on Touch of Evil a few months back. No spoilers until the last paragraph
https://www.the-solute.com/year-of-the-month-jake-gittes-on-touch-of-evil/
1. Eyes Wide Shut
2. Fight Club
3. The Blair Witch Project
4. Topsy-Turvy
5. Election
6. The Straight Story
7. The Matrix
8. Bringing Out the Dead
9. The Winslow Boy
10. The Talented Mr. Ripley
11. Leila
12. American Movie
13. Show Me Love
14. I Stand Alone
15. Toy Story 2
16. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
17. The Insider
18. The Limey
19. The Mummy
20. Late August, Early September
21. Sweet and Lowdown
22. Run Lola Run
23. Princess Mononoke
24. The Iron Giant
25. The Sixth Sense
Only Angels Have Wings has just about everything I could want from a movie. I'd happily watch it once a week. Maybe the greatest screenplay ever written. If an exotic locale-set romantic hangout adventure about a community of stoic but likable professionals sounds any good to you you owe it to yourself to check this out.
Us' main problem for me is that it makes an attempt to explain/rationalize things that are best left irrational and nightmarish. In doing so it inadvertently makes all the endless "but how..." questions legitimate. That knocks it down a notch (and yeah I'm also... mixed on the ending) but it doesn't and shouldn't overshadow the amazing set-up, direction, Lupita's performance, imagery, music etc.
Audience isn't out there pitching studios the movies it wants them to make. No one would have demanded a photorealistic remake of The Lion King if it didn't exist. Disney just makes shit that's the easiest to sell.
I'm happy to hear you dug this. Yeah this is a top 3 horror movie for me, and the best I've ever seen at recreating the vibes of a classic Victorian ghost story. So elegant, so chilling.
It's not a hill I'm gonna die on but I'm still surprised you allowed this. It's like putting the colorized version of Casablanca or something on a best color films list. All it does is take the spot of an actual black and white movie.