Despite losing steam after a strong start, Glimmers remains worth watching for the central performance alone.
Category: Drama
Blue Giant (2024) – Movie Review
Blue Giant, while not without its ups and downs, is carried by its music and animation.
Ex-Husbands (2024) – Movie Review
Ex-Husbands is discreet in its study of paternal and filial relations, but no less clear-eyed because of it.
Evil Does Not Exist (2024) – Movie Review
Hamaguchi keeps his style in an otherwise wholly original philosophical essay.
Challengers (2024) – Movie Review
Rarely does such a dynamic movie offer so many layers to obsess over.
La Chimera (2024) – Movie Review
A self-reflective flight of fancy into a timeless world of unfulfilled love.
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.
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