★★★★

Barry Sonnenfeld is one of the most talented dudes in the biz. All his movies are flawlessly constructed, perfectly paced and endlessly creative, which is wild on the budget that he operates on. I was looking at his filmography and one thing is really strange to me: he doesn’t seem to have any smaller, “indie” critically acclaimed movies the way that other directors of his caliber get to do? He doesn’t follow the “one for me, one for you” type of process that other talented directors do. It’s not to say that there aren’t other directors who only do “big” movies, but those guys are usually really bad at their jobs and couldn’t make a better movie if they wanted to (cough roland emmerich cough). It really feels like this guy just lives to make big budget movies that rock ass. Which is fine! Great movies!