What looked to be a measured pace turns out to be stagnation, as the central conflict fails to move beyond the surface.
Category: Drama
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) – Movie Review
It’s difficult to process such disparate experiences into one cohesive opinion or recommendation, but even at their worst the Coens are expert filmmakers.
Columbus (2017) – Movie Review
You could be forgiven for not knowing that the town of Columbus, Indiana (population 44,000) is a small mecca of modern architecture, with dozens of remarkable buildings designed by renowned architects in the mid-20th century. […]
Sir (2018) – Movie Review
Sir is a movie that lives in the small realities of daily life, a sober study in kindness in the face of inequality.
Creed II (2018) – Movie Review
¡En español! Creed, Ryan Coogler’s surprise hit, is a tough act to follow, but director Steven Caple Jr. has acquitted himself well with this sequel. It is not as gritty, but how could it be, […]
Wildlife (2018) – Movie Review
Wildlife is an emotional snapshot of a family in crisis, which looks at our foibles with neither judgment nor approval.
Vision (2018) – Movie Review
Like the made-up flower it’s named after, Vision seems to last for years without producing any tangible fruit.
Eighth Grade (2018) – Movie Review
Eighth Grade has distilled the essence of what it’s like to be a teenager, with its painful awkwardness but also with tenderness and love.
Ben Is Back (2018) – Movie Review
Ben Is Back is at times melodramatic, but there’s good drama in the iron-willed mother driving her son around on a guided tour of his lowest points
Roma (2018)
Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma is a peculiar project, at once collective and personal, intimate and distant, warm and cold. The story is undoubtedly personal: it is that of Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young maid living with […]
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