Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
A gorgeous, devastating, but overall hopeful mediation on cycles of violence, of how women are silenced in private and public spheres, and what it truly means to find freedom. The use of music, both modern and retro, to evoke how “timeless” these cycles are—and how explosive it is to break out of them. I also really like the use of dance as a visual motif for domestic violence—it makes these darker scene sequences easier to take in.
Homophobic demon from the 80s possessing Brian Cox to terrorize his gay son and his new boyfriend with an all-star comic cast… Yeah, sign me up. This was fun!!!
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“You’ve had a middle experience,” roughly says some guy (not read you like that, Young Mazino) Ayo Edebiri is maybe dating as s definite theme statement in the first view minutes of Opus. While the role of this guy really feels like it is just to deliver an idea rather than complicate the plot (a continuous problem in this film), he does introduce a central premise of Opus: Who gets to be fascinating?
Edebiri’s grounded and clever Ariel believes that…
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Companion is a different movie than I thought it would be, and perhaps my disappointment in it comes more from the potential of what I know it can be.
A horror thriller with a sci-fi twist, a gifted comedic ensemble cast (which I incorrectly thought may give our characters some zest), and a unique directorial vision—the trailers sold me. I was a little disappointed to have the movie’s first major twist revealed to me via trailers and posters (not the movie’s…