Rebecca Hall excels in her firts outing as a director and a writer, eliciting great performances and a gorgeous photography.
Category: Drama
The Green Knight (2021) – Movie Review
With its bold aesthetic mysticism, The Green Knight reminded me why I loved my book of Arthurian myths when I was a kid.
The Last Duel (2021) – Movie Review
Ridley Scott’s latest studies medieval misogyny from a uniquely modern perspective.
Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021) – Movie Review
Quo Vadis, Aida? is a rough but necessary film detailing the circumstances around the Srebrenica genocide.
Monsoon (2020) – Movie Review
Monsoon is a rich character study, light in the narrative but deep in its themes of identity and grief.
Blue Bayou (2021) – Movie Review
With so much to criticize in real life, it is baffling that Blue Bayou spends more time in soapy melodrama than in a timely, specific denunciation whose foundations are certainly all right there.
Drive My Car (2021) – Movie Review
I come to you with the rarest of findings: a three-hour movie that knows what to do with its time.
CODA (2021) – Movie Review
A rich and nuanced study of familial duty, class and disability, with coming-of-age tropes to spare.
The Man from the Sea (Umi wo kakeru) (2021) – Movie Review
The central plot of this movie did nothing for me, but I was engrossed in the lives of the four lead characters all the same.
The Woman Who Ran (2021) – Movie Review
It is easy to imagine a good movie being made with the concept at the heart of The Woman Who Ran; I certainly had ample opportunity to, because its brief 77-minute runtime nevertheless felt like an excruciating slog.
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