Adrien Brody’s speech was longer than the damn movie.
I give everyone ONE holocaust survivor or slave Oscar as a rite of passage into ‘prestige’ acting but the second you pull that stunt twice you’re playing the meta and switched the Oscar game to its easiest difficulty mode to inflate your numbers.
Shaking my head at Brody’s antics aside, he is great in this. Wouldn’t have been my Best Actor vote, but it is a very raw and, well, brutal performance;…
Expression can liberate you from any prison. No matter how inhumane the conditions, what’s human will always rise to the surface. Rehabilitation through the arts is a beautiful thing and Sing Sing conveys that marvelously.
Creativity and artistry are an endless reservoir of salvation.
They better stop playing with my man Domingo and give him the damn Oscar next time!
Now that’s more like it! Across felt like a direct response to most of my criticisms of its predecessor film in virtually every way imaginable.
For starters, I found the pacing in this installment to be a lot more measured, allowing for an abundance of tender family building scenes for both Gwen and Miles that really help you get a firm grasp on their updated given circumstances.
The Morales family was already ranging from satisfactory to good, but it’s clear…
