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Category: Drama
All of Us Strangers (2024) – Movie Review
Is a heavy hand bad when it works?
The Father of the Milky Way Railroad (2023) – Movie Review
It’s hard to recommend a movie that swerves so wildly from Wikipedia article to TV drama, even with two great performances at its core. I will say that trapped in the confines of a trans-Atlantic flight, it made me cry like six times, so make of that what you will!
Priscilla (2024) – Movie Review
Between Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis (which I hated) and Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla (which I mostly liked), I think it’s time to prohibit biopics from involving the real subject or their descendants in their production.
The Zone of Interest (2023) – Movie Review
Is it gauche to say I just expected more? The problem, for me, is that I don’t know what new shades of the well-treaded concept of the banality of evil this movie fills in that require more than, say, the first couple of scenes to play out.
Perfect Days (2023) – Movie Review
How can an ode to normalcy become extraordinary?
Past Lives (2023) – Movie Review
Past Lives is the Brief Encounter for our era, a masterpiece of wounded romance.
The Boy and the Heron (2023) – Movie Review
While visually as stunning as any other Ghibli, Miyazaki’s latest lacks depth in its story and characters.
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) – Movie Review
Scorsese’s harrowing denunciation of the crimes against the Osage tells a powerful story through a too narrow perspective.
Fair Play (2023) – Movie Review
Sometimes it feels like a movie could be so much more, such potential for a deeper story. I’m not sure this is one of those; sometimes there’s just nothing there.
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