Johnstone | 2025 | USA

A foundational concept of phenomenology is “returning to the things themselves” and engaging with them as they are, not as we subjectively perceive them to be. A lazy form of film criticism describes a movie as being flawed because it’s not the movie the critic wanted to be viewing. I was unironically hyped for this movie because I wanted to see some android carnage. It’s here, but l wanted more.

Am I at fault? Probably.