Despite a powerful performance by Adam Driver, Annette’s unsubstantial plot, forgettable lyrics and a nightmarish doll did not work for me.
Category: Drama
Dear Ex (2018) – Movie Review
Despite its somewhat scattered nature, Dear Ex skillfully finds comedy in family drama.
Night of the Kings (La nuit des rois) (2021) – Movie Review
Night of the Kings transports us to a beguiling world of magical realism, tales as old as times, and shadowy plots for power or survival.
Weathering with You (Tenki no Ko) (2020) – Movie Review
What draws me about CoMix Wave Films’ style is that it is an approach to art that is deliberately, intensely devoted to portraying the mundane over the extraordinary. Ugly backdrops are made beautiful by the care put into painting them.
The Mauritanian (2021) – Movie Review
The Mauritanian feels like an anomaly, a movie straight out of 2003 -in content and in form- that through some mysterious phenomenon materialized instead in 2021
Dear Comrades (2021) – Movie Review
The transformation of a proud Soviet party official from dogmatic soldier to human being, this film may be dry but not without sentiment.
Ammonite (2021) – Movie Review
Francis Lee’s followup to God’s Own Country is a moody and atmospheric -if oddly cold and passionless- period love story.
Your Name Engraved Herein (2020) – Movie Rev
Part coming of age, part teenage romance, part period piece, part queer study, Your Name Engraved Herein excels in its atmosphere and its weaving of the personal and the political.
Nomadland (2021) – Movie Review
A movie full of love and wonder, an appeal to kindness as a response to heartache, masterful work by Chloe Zhao and Frances McDormand.
The Father (2021) – Movie Review
There is no escaping that this film is difficult to watch, but the writing, the editing and the performances are truly nothing short of stunning.
