This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
It feels almost sacrilegious to even attempt a review of this film. With every word I type, I can’t help but imagine Tom Hagen looking at me and saying, “Why do you hurt me?”
Where Part I is my favorite film of all time, Part II is undoubtedly the greatest film ever made—and after this latest viewing, I’m beginning to wonder if it might just become my favorite (don’t tell old Vito). Ultimately, I stand by what I said in…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
There are movies and then there is cinema. The Godfather transcends both. It is a work of art only paralleled by its sequel, and neither should be completely taken or viewed exclusively from the other. Together, they produce a complex story of humanity, family, and morality, full of deep and natural dialogue, timeless characters portrayed by generational acting talents, and nuance that can be examined and discussed for hours. It is art.
The Godfather is a feat that few films…
While The Silence of the Lambs gets most of the love in the Hannibal Lecter-verse, Manhunter deserves its flowers. It’s stylish in a very 1980s way, provides a different feel on Lecter, and is equally as unsettling. Michael Mann directs with his signature cool, especially with the haunting yet contemporary score that elevates every scene.
At the center of it all is William Petersen’s Will Graham. He’s fragile, almost broken, and the film does a phenomenal job of making you…
Exploration of the stages of grief with humanoid crow? If only all of us could be so lucky.
Even after my roughly fifteenth viewing of Gladiator, I still sit there at the end, hoping, wishing, and praying that Maximus survives. Alas, he shall not meet up with his army but have a magnificent reunion with his family in Elysium. Although my heart still breaks for my general, Gladiator is truly special. It boasts many timeless performances, a captivating story, a top-ten opening scene (the introduction and exposition of General Maximus Decimus Meridius “kicks like a mule with his…”…
Writers: Yeah, so it's going to be a movie about these people who go to a secluded cabin, find The Book of the Dead, and everyone gets possessed.
No one:
Absolutely no one:
Literally not a single person:
The sexually depraved intern in the corner: But, hear me out, what if we have the forest sexually assault one of the characters with a branch..?
