Riz Ahmed is one of the best young actors working in screen performing. This performance is reminiscent of '70s-cinema Robert DeNiro, with a paradoxical energy that seems to flow both internally and externally. He's under constant compression by powerful forces - and in his sunken eyes, a deep vulnerability is evident; and yet, underneath lurks a reservoir of rage that feels destined to boil to a volcanic explosion.
Paul Raci delivers a fantastic supporting performance with a deep sense of…
Hello LETTERBOXD community. I'd like to enlist you all in a cause for the preservation of a great piece of cinema. Help me create a groundswell to restore the original theatrical cut of AMADEUS - to be made available in the best video formats available. I would plead the editors and writers on this amazing site to provide me with contact information at Warner home video to champion the cause directly.
I may lose many of you on the merits…
Despite this being only technically the second film in the new Spider-Man franchise, Tom Holland has appeared as the character in five films, and feels ready to inherit the role of the true custodian of the Marvel cinematic franchise.
The meta-level conflict at the heart of this film - the absence of Robert Downey Jr - parallels the narrative - the absence of Tony Stark, and it's up to Holland/Spidey to assume the mantle, or in this case, the signature…
Richard Curtis returns to the concept of timey-wimey wibbles and wobbles for the third time, apparently creatively inspired after his brilliant "Doctor Who" episode to continue working with similar time-travelly-related premises for stories, this time to imagine a universe quirked into an absence of Beatlemania.
As somewhat a Beatlamaniac myself, and a fan of Boyle and Curtis, this film was tailor-made to me. Was genuinely, deeply, moved by several moments in the film: the re-composition and rescuing as much of…
