Daunting Beauty: A Review of A Hidden Life
“A Hidden Life” passes like the sun across the sky and clouds across the Alps, warming, falling, brutally assured. It is timeless and it is timely.
J. J. Boinks: A Review of Star Wars IX
What if it had been a “movie”? What if it had been good?
TS, Your Cat Is Dead: A Review Of Cats
Unspeakable but unmissable folly. The kink abides.
How Soon Is Now? Immersion, Longitude and Nicolas Winding Refn’s Too Old To Die Young
Screen of consciousness: what is a “movie”? What is a mood?
Top 5 Film: December 2019
Safdies; Sandler; Louisa May Alcott; Greta Gerwig; Saoirse Ronan; Almodóvar; Banderas; Ridley; Driver… Steve Bannon?
Forgive Thyself: A Review of Honey Boy
A besorrowed hall of mirrors of fathers and children and child actors and child actors and Shia LaBeouf.
Scenes from a Divorce: A Review of Marriage Story
Baumbach says the work is portmanteau, “a thriller, a legal procedural, a romantic comedy, a screwball comedy, a tragic love story, even a musical.”
Landed Sentries: A Review of Rian Johnson’s Knives Out
“Knives Out” is a restless, giggling little animal that says much, much, much more than you expect in a modern American picture.
Sounding, Resounding: A Review of The Report
Adam Driver plays fierce intelligence in Scott Z. Burns’ taut, actor-packed political thriller.
Time After Time: A Review Of The Irishman
A friend walks up to you, a friend walks away from you, in the middle, that friend has put two bullets in the back of you.
