A film that takes place over the course of a seemingly meaningless beer league game—the last game of the season, before the town plows over the field and replaces it. This movie nails the feeling of transience in a small town, the sense that time marches on, and that the men who find meaning in their comfortable spaces (in this case, a pretty crummy ball game) might be lost without it.
There's no big bad, no gentrifying developer threatening to…
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Conclave 2024
This film, in addition to being hilarious, takes seriously the importance of faith and uncertainty and grapples with the diminishing importance of the Church in politically fraught times, in a completely respectful manner? And people are mad about it?
I know that it flatters a sensibility that I possess—of a coastal-New-England cultural Catholicism and general favorability toward Pope Francis—but Conclave still comes out optimistic for what the Church can be. Great film and it should have won for best editing.
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Field of Dreams 1989
"We just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening. Back then I thought, 'Well, there'll be other days.' I didn't realize that that was the only day."
Saw this in 35mm at the Coolidge. A great movie about dreams and purpose that somehow takes all the schmaltz and cheesiness and turns it into a big pile of sincerity. The final scene is what everyone remembers, but Moonlight Graham's entire storyline makes the movie for me.…
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