by Mattie Lucas
Cinema from a Decidedly Queer Perspective
Evil Does Not Exist | 2024
There is something almost unspeakably beguiling about Ryūsuke Hamaguchi's Evil Does Not Exist. The filmmaker behind Drive My Car (a 3-hour meditation on loneliness and Chekov that was so stunning even the Academy couldn't help but nominate it for Best Picture) and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy is no stranger to thoughtful and introspective dramas.
When was the last time you sat in a movie theater and felt like you were watching something so new and exciting that you wanted to levitate out of the theater when it was over? For me, that moment was this past weekend at a screening of Ryan Coogler's extraordinary new film, Sinners.