Matt Cipolla
@cipollamatt.bsky.social
Was a film critic for seven-ish years (Bright Wall/Dark Room, The Spool, Ebert Voices, The Film Stage, so on). Now I guess I’m just critical. Tail-end millennial trash. Music, motorcycles, etc.
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Mostly on Instagram @Cipolla.Matt
cipollam926@gmail
#MeToo
Mostly on Instagram @Cipolla.Matt
cipollam926@gmail
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Suffice it to say that I'm on Instagram far, far more than here or anywhere else.
@ cipolla.matt
@ cipolla.matt
Ultimate double feature.
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Ultimate double feature.
Saw BUGONIA. Chuckled at times, Robbie Ryan continues to be one of the most reliable cinematographers working today, and Stone and Plemons are obviously very good, but I really needed this script to go farther, not just louder. My love for KINDS OF KINDNESS continues to surprise me. boxd.it/bwfV6V
A ★★★ review of Bugonia (2025)
I didn't have time to watch Save the Green Planet! before this, so I can't speak to how this works in relation to the original. And frankly, I do wonder if I'd have even the sort of passive engagement...
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October 28, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Saw BUGONIA. Chuckled at times, Robbie Ryan continues to be one of the most reliable cinematographers working today, and Stone and Plemons are obviously very good, but I really needed this script to go farther, not just louder. My love for KINDS OF KINDNESS continues to surprise me. boxd.it/bwfV6V
Suffice it to say that I'm on Instagram far, far more than here or anywhere else.
@ cipolla.matt
@ cipolla.matt
October 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Suffice it to say that I'm on Instagram far, far more than here or anywhere else.
@ cipolla.matt
@ cipolla.matt
Dead Cab for Kennedys
October 7, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Dead Cab for Kennedys
To Wong Foo, Thnks fr th Mmrs! Julie Newmar
September 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
To Wong Foo, Thnks fr th Mmrs! Julie Newmar
Got a *ton* of writing done on another screenplay, then went for a motorcycle ride at around 11:45 pm. Rode past a stranger with a nice Heritage Softail, circled back around to say hi to him, and then we rode around the city for over an hour and chatted at a gas station. What a good day.
September 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Got a *ton* of writing done on another screenplay, then went for a motorcycle ride at around 11:45 pm. Rode past a stranger with a nice Heritage Softail, circled back around to say hi to him, and then we rode around the city for over an hour and chatted at a gas station. What a good day.
The last two days have really been making me think of “The Misery Chick” from DARIA, easily one of my favorite episodes.
September 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The last two days have really been making me think of “The Misery Chick” from DARIA, easily one of my favorite episodes.
Fun! A screenplay of mine, MEXICAN WINE, is a Second Rounder in Austin Film Festival's Drama Feature competition. It also got a 9 on a Black List evaluation a few months back, which about 0.5 percent of all projects get, so if anyone's interested in reading it... or buying it from me... #scriptsky
September 11, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Fun! A screenplay of mine, MEXICAN WINE, is a Second Rounder in Austin Film Festival's Drama Feature competition. It also got a 9 on a Black List evaluation a few months back, which about 0.5 percent of all projects get, so if anyone's interested in reading it... or buying it from me... #scriptsky
Saw LURKER. A script this rushed and staccato against such emotionally passive direction would be nice if the film actually used its conceit to any (a)moral purpose, but it’s too rushed and just sort of… there. boxd.it/aXgW4X
A ★★½ review of Lurker (2025)
It's hard to tell to what degree its staccato, all-too-quick screenplay is a feature and not a bug, but it can't help but feel inherently broad either way. It essentially plays like things happening o...
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September 3, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Saw LURKER. A script this rushed and staccato against such emotionally passive direction would be nice if the film actually used its conceit to any (a)moral purpose, but it’s too rushed and just sort of… there. boxd.it/aXgW4X
I saw POOLS last night. It was at least the third time in a year that I saw a new movie and thought, Oh, this feels like a web series from 2012. boxd.it/aRPIDb
A ★★½ review of Pools (2024)
This is about the third time in a year that I've seen a new movie and thought, This feels like a web series from 2012. This thing sure does feel like a web series from 2012! It looks quite good, espec...
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August 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I saw POOLS last night. It was at least the third time in a year that I saw a new movie and thought, Oh, this feels like a web series from 2012. boxd.it/aRPIDb
BOYS GO TO JUPITER kind of reminded me of this. youtu.be/5Tp2acZ95dk?...
I'm not your daddy I'm your grandpa GEICO Commercial
YouTube video by Kesa Kay
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August 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
BOYS GO TO JUPITER kind of reminded me of this. youtu.be/5Tp2acZ95dk?...
So… has anyone else’s electricity bill been skyrocketing lately?
August 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
So… has anyone else’s electricity bill been skyrocketing lately?
72 degrees, rode up and down Lakeshore Drive past midnight, putted around the city, filled up my tank. I feel cleansed.
Also, I bought this bike with faaar past 9,000 miles on it, but yay, a nice round number!
Also, I bought this bike with faaar past 9,000 miles on it, but yay, a nice round number!
August 20, 2025 at 6:20 AM
72 degrees, rode up and down Lakeshore Drive past midnight, putted around the city, filled up my tank. I feel cleansed.
Also, I bought this bike with faaar past 9,000 miles on it, but yay, a nice round number!
Also, I bought this bike with faaar past 9,000 miles on it, but yay, a nice round number!
I had a nightmare last night that I was at a SCREAM marathon and someone told me that Jonathan Glazer used AI for THE ZONE OF INTEREST.
August 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I had a nightmare last night that I was at a SCREAM marathon and someone told me that Jonathan Glazer used AI for THE ZONE OF INTEREST.
Glad I was able to get a quick ride in today before the sky completely opened up.
August 19, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Glad I was able to get a quick ride in today before the sky completely opened up.
Pleasantly surprised to see a Criterion release for perhaps the best movie ever. When they didn’t do anything when it turned 25 last summer, I just figured it wouldn’t get anything ever.
August 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Pleasantly surprised to see a Criterion release for perhaps the best movie ever. When they didn’t do anything when it turned 25 last summer, I just figured it wouldn’t get anything ever.
Impromptu thread!
I’ve kind of been having a minor existential crisis over the last year or so as to whether I ever actually loved movies in particular or if I’ve always just loved art that’s good. Maybe the medium of film was, for lack of better phrasing, incidental. (Sorry, Marshall McLuhan.)
I’ve kind of been having a minor existential crisis over the last year or so as to whether I ever actually loved movies in particular or if I’ve always just loved art that’s good. Maybe the medium of film was, for lack of better phrasing, incidental. (Sorry, Marshall McLuhan.)
August 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Impromptu thread!
I’ve kind of been having a minor existential crisis over the last year or so as to whether I ever actually loved movies in particular or if I’ve always just loved art that’s good. Maybe the medium of film was, for lack of better phrasing, incidental. (Sorry, Marshall McLuhan.)
I’ve kind of been having a minor existential crisis over the last year or so as to whether I ever actually loved movies in particular or if I’ve always just loved art that’s good. Maybe the medium of film was, for lack of better phrasing, incidental. (Sorry, Marshall McLuhan.)
Happy (?) 22nd anniversary to this
August 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Happy (?) 22nd anniversary to this
I finally saw SINNERS. It didn’t do a ton for me. I don’t think it’s bad; its bright spots are quite bright and it’s clearly earnest. I do think it’s sort of a mess, though, partly due to a running impatience the movie seems to have with itself. (Why is it edited like a trailer?) boxd.it/aIZPP3
A ★★½ review of Sinners (2025)
I finally saw it. I don't think it's bad, but I do think it's a mess. For a while, it's somewhere between slight and slightly too much: slightly over-edited, slightly over-scored, slightly jarring in ...
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August 14, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I finally saw SINNERS. It didn’t do a ton for me. I don’t think it’s bad; its bright spots are quite bright and it’s clearly earnest. I do think it’s sort of a mess, though, partly due to a running impatience the movie seems to have with itself. (Why is it edited like a trailer?) boxd.it/aIZPP3
Charli XCX is a SCREAM 4 fan yaaay
August 14, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Charli XCX is a SCREAM 4 fan yaaay
Went for a very quick afternoon ride earlier today.
Then when midnight hit, I thought, Oh, I want to just putt around when there’s virtually no traffic. So I did, and I don’t know if there’s a better feeling.
Then when midnight hit, I thought, Oh, I want to just putt around when there’s virtually no traffic. So I did, and I don’t know if there’s a better feeling.
August 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Went for a very quick afternoon ride earlier today.
Then when midnight hit, I thought, Oh, I want to just putt around when there’s virtually no traffic. So I did, and I don’t know if there’s a better feeling.
Then when midnight hit, I thought, Oh, I want to just putt around when there’s virtually no traffic. So I did, and I don’t know if there’s a better feeling.
EDDINGTON dilutes itself with thinly sketched nonsense because it doesn’t seem to realize what it’s actually about. Ari Aster is still a good director when things all fall into place, but God, someone else needs to write his scripts at this point. boxd.it/aCYX6p
A ★★½ review of Eddington (2025)
I chuckled a few times; I yawned far more. It's as if Ari Aster had a solid end point but didn't know how to get there, filling an already-bloated runtime with thinly sketched caricatures without the ...
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August 6, 2025 at 6:29 AM
EDDINGTON dilutes itself with thinly sketched nonsense because it doesn’t seem to realize what it’s actually about. Ari Aster is still a good director when things all fall into place, but God, someone else needs to write his scripts at this point. boxd.it/aCYX6p
Death Cab tickets became available at the last minute? Oh?!
August 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Death Cab tickets became available at the last minute? Oh?!
The toy rifle pops out an umbrella with the Italian flag on it. Because of course it does.
August 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The toy rifle pops out an umbrella with the Italian flag on it. Because of course it does.
Now on day three of feeling like I’m hungover or something just because the air quality is so bad. Anyone else?
August 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Now on day three of feeling like I’m hungover or something just because the air quality is so bad. Anyone else?