Choosing to thread too many stories, Marvin doesn’t land any of them, leaving us instead with a fragmented look at a character that doesn’t hold up to that level of detail.
Choosing to thread too many stories, Marvin doesn’t land any of them, leaving us instead with a fragmented look at a character that doesn’t hold up to that level of detail.
Shot in a rich, evocative black-and-white, Leto offers a unique look at the lives of rock musicians in 80s Leningrad.
One thing I can say with confidence is that this is the best movie about arm-wrestling championships that I’ve ever seen.
Flawlessly directed, expertly written, incredibly well acted: Widows is everything you could hope for in a heist movie.
In its slow and contemplative tone, Leave No Trace demands your full attention, and will reward it with a heartfelt study of adulthood and solitude.
The concept is great, but the execution fumbles with its greatest asset, which is the comedic aspect of the story. It is far too silly to be serious, and far too serious to be funny.
Halloween is the perfect Halloween movie: a straight up genre film, unabashedly so, an 80s-style slasher film that knows exactly what we want out of it and is happy to oblige.
Next time someone tells you they’ve seen it all, show them this.
First Man is slow -too slow- which I am comfortable with, but it is also long -too long- which is harder to ignore. Hand in hand with its tranquil pace and its fixation to detail, though, comes a sense of upping the stakes, and when the flight comes, it is awe-inspiring.
Heartstone is tough, and unapologetically so, but there is a wounded beauty to it, in its dimly lit nights and its sparks of humanity between the sea and the rocks.