Tag: drama
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“The Skin of the Wolf” Is Beneath Just Barely a Man
There is no explanation, no backstory just observation enshrouded in mythic layers of beautiful cinematography. Everything is left to interpretation, which is both besides the point and probably is the point.
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“Boundaries” Knows Where Those Are
Boundaries implies it’s a film with no boundaries or trying to find it boundaries.
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“The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter”: A Different Kind of Deer Hunter
When the expected Deliverance moment comes it is both false and awkwardly right. They all get through the rapids not shattered, just a little bit better men, friends and maybe understanding and appreciative parent and child.
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“Lean on Pete” Races Out the Quarter Mile of Adolescent Dreams
Director Andrew Haigh doesn’t elevate the story with sappy sentiments and phony triumphs. Instead he delivers an elegiac rendering of the death of childhood.
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“King of Peking”: Father and Son Create Their Buddy Film
King of Peking (streaming on Netflix) proves that the best buddy films are created by fathers and sons.
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“First Reformed”: An Anguished Meditation on a Corrupted World.
First Reformed is one of Schrader’s finest films. It is his redemption, and a perfect fit for his transcendental style
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Sunday’s Illness: Healing a Broken Mother-Daughter Bond
It is all so emotionally and nakedly obvious. And that not only makes Sunday’s Illness good but near great.
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“All I Want” Tries to Get Pass “The Big Chill”
All I Want, a smart little indie co-written by the actress Melissa Center and debut director West Liang, is the millennial attempt to beat The Big Chill.
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“Hotel Artemis” tries to keep the cons conned
Foul mouth and over confident gangsters, international female assassins, domestic hit men with fuckup siblings, kingpins with hot triggered heirs that have daddy inferiority complexes, a city in riot mode, and Dave Bautista channeling Drax 2X, make for an over emoting ensemble that tries to keep up with the overheated plot.
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“Hereditary” Bringing Up the R Baby
Hereditary is a smart reminder that the horror movie hasn’t entirely forgotten it’s past.
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Stepping “Outside In” to Free Themselves from Their Personal Prisons
Every director strives for honesty, but few achieve it so sincerely as Lynn Shelton does in Outside In.