With so much to criticize in real life, it is baffling that Blue Bayou spends more time in soapy melodrama than in a timely, specific denunciation whose foundations are certainly all right there.
Category: Drama
Drive My Car (2021) – Movie Review
I come to you with the rarest of findings: a three-hour movie that knows what to do with its time.
CODA (2021) – Movie Review
A rich and nuanced study of familial duty, class and disability, with coming-of-age tropes to spare.
The Man from the Sea (Umi wo kakeru) (2021) – Movie Review
The central plot of this movie did nothing for me, but I was engrossed in the lives of the four lead characters all the same.
The Woman Who Ran (2021) – Movie Review
It is easy to imagine a good movie being made with the concept at the heart of The Woman Who Ran; I certainly had ample opportunity to, because its brief 77-minute runtime nevertheless felt like an excruciating slog.
Annette (2021) – Movie Review
Despite a powerful performance by Adam Driver, Annette’s unsubstantial plot, forgettable lyrics and a nightmarish doll did not work for me.
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
