Scorsese’s harrowing denunciation of the crimes against the Osage tells a powerful story through a too narrow perspective.
Scorsese’s harrowing denunciation of the crimes against the Osage tells a powerful story through a too narrow perspective.
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.
Koreeda populates this heartrending story with fiery characters, brought to life by incredible actors.
A hurricane of lust, betrayal, confrontations and reconciliations.
Godland did not work for me, despite its engrossing first half and the stunning beauty of its shots, but you might prove more patient or more open to the experience than me.
¡En español! You know how some movies feel like reading a Wikipedia page, even if they’re perfectly okay? Air felt a bit like that to me, as entertaining as it was, and now Call Jane […]
A difficult but sensitive reflection on the end of one’s life.
The key to embracing and appreciating the movie is understanding that it is a character study first, a biography second, and then only in a third a distant place a discussion about the American genocide in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
If the film is powerful in its denunciation of this social reality, it is at the cost of the more personal story of its protagonist, who never quite comes into focus as her own person.
I did not expect Asteroid City to be so heartfelt, but it pulls off its dramatic ambitions with originality.