Bogamus’s review published on Letterboxd:
LSC Week 1: These Go to 11
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"Just be a rock."
What an extraordinary film! And what a way to open the 11th Letterboxd Season Challenge! Few works of contemporary cinema embody chaos and control in such equal measure. This is a film that dials everything up to eleven, hurling itself into a frenzy of visual invention, tonal shifts, and narrative detours, yet somehow remains profoundly coherent and deeply affecting.
It’s a film that has everything... literally. The Daniels lean into maximalism without fear, weaving absurdist comedy, sweeping drama, and moments of striking tenderness into a single, unrelenting stream of creativity. On the surface, it shouldn’t work. The sheer density of ideas, gags, and stylistic flourishes should collapse under their own weight, but instead, the chaos becomes its own form of harmony. That delicate balance is what makes Everything Everywhere All at Once not only unique, but essential.
What makes it remarkable is not just its inventiveness, but its ability to anchor wild imagination in genuine emotion. The film constantly shifts between irreverence and sincerity, reminding us that amidst the noise, there is always something human worth holding onto. Its humour disarms, its spectacle dazzles, but its emotional undercurrent devastates.
This might be the strangest masterpiece I have ever seen, but it is a masterpiece nonetheless. Impossible to describe, impossible to categorize, it must simply be experienced. And to begin the season with such a bold, audacious work feels like opening a door into a cinematic universe of limitless possibility.
11th Letterboxd Season Challenge
2022, ranked
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