Thunder Road is heartbreaking in all the best ways, it is brutally honest, and it is compassionate. It is a frontal attack on the ideal of masculinity that doesn’t leave any room for vulnerability. It is a hand held out to those who are hurting.
Category: Drama
Burning (2018)
The very first scenes of Burning seem to set the course for a conventional love story, only to pull the rug from under our feet afterwards.
The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013)
To see even the shortest scene in The Tale of Princess Kaguya is to be entranced by it. It is rare to find such sheer beauty in a film, no pretense of realism sought, every shot conceived as a painting that alone could tell a story.
Beatriz at Dinner (2017)
I really wanted to like Beatriz at Dinner. It has the elements of the exact kind of movie that I relish: a cast of talented actors, a simple premise that allows them to interact with each other, a concept based on character and dialogue.
Gifted (2017)
Gifted is a small pearl of a movie, a heartwarming and intimate tale of family and upbringing.
A Prayer Before Dawn (2018)
A Prayer Before Dawn clocks in at only two hours, and yet I could have sworn it was three. The beginning ground me down with its desperation, so by the end I just wanted to see this poor man out.
Lucky (2018)
Roger Ebert famously said that movies are machines that generate empathy, and this is exactly what Lucky does: it shows us the lives of other people and teaches us to love them for what they are.
Short Term 12 (2013)
You owe it to yourself to see Short Term 12. The world gains empathy and understanding every time someone watches it for the first time. It is that rare perfect film –perfect just the way it is– that looks at people with piercing clarity and boundless compassion at the same time.
Everybody Knows (2018)
Everybody Knows takes us to a Spanish village, deep in wine country, where a family is reunited, old grudges come to the surface, the unthinkable happens, and all that was unsaid is, inevitably, said.
It’s Only the End of the World (2016)
What a delight, what a rare privilege, to see a work of art so full to the brim with talent. This is a movie that knows how to find the cosmic in the commonplace, the monumental in the smallest interactions. It is a tragedy, but it is also, simply, life.
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