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Still Alice 2014
When films make me weep, they are either something special or personally touching. This film is both.
Alice, stunningly played by Julianne Moore, is a linguistics professor with a busy, fulfilling life that is occasionally frustrating. Having just turned 50, she is happy, healthy, and fit; juggling a brilliant career with being a wife and mother. Her occasional memory issues are irksome, until they escalate into a truly devastating diagnosis; early onset Alzheimer’s Disease.
Told, unusually but effectively, from Alice’s…
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You Were Never Really Here 2017
Having watched this film twice and been left speechless both times, this was a difficult review to write.
Joe, exceptionally played by Joaquin Phoenix, is a war veteran and former FBI agent now working as a hitman, while sweetly caring for his elderly and frail mother. His latest mission is to rescue the young daughter of a senator from a paedophile ring; a seemingly easy task for Joe until it becomes something more complex.
The plot is compelling enough but…
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Us 2019
I don’t watch horror, not since I was a teenager anyway so I'm no expert, but having watched Get Out, and now Us, I’ll watch everything Jordan Peele does. Everything.
Us is deep and dark, creepy and chaotic, twisted and traumatic, and weird - and weirder. Multi-layered and overflowing with symbolism, this is a film that invites repeated viewings with hours spent analysing and discussing. Refusing to answer or explain everything, it allows for audience imagination and interpretations.
However, if…
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Her Smell 2018
Let me be very clear. Becky Something stinks; a foul, despairing, clinging, stench that is at once both intoxicating and repugnant. Elisabeth Moss, however, doesn’t.
Her performance as the self-destructive 90’s punk savant, Becky Something, in Her Smell, is a full-on frontal assault of the senses. With smeared make up, snarling laughs, and gleeful vitriol, curiously reminiscent of the Joker, Moss is mesmerising. Her powerful portrayal doesn’t overwhelm the supporting cast though, who all deliver the fear and pain Becky…
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