Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Opulent, gorgeous, great danglar and villefort casting. Minus half star for no Jacopo or Luigi Vampa in a nearly three hour retelling. Also Mercedes was lacking a little magic/charm. But otherwise lovely
I just kept thinking about how much time Mikey Madison must have spent in scores/sapphire doing character study to complete transform her Disney channel self into a bonafide, heel clicking, night walking dancer, but man did she really nail the mannerisms, irrationality, heel-clicking, gooch shaking. Was really waiting for the Scorsese style second half come down, but a much more light hearted decline with a really powerful, succinct ending that summarizes and saves the viewer 90 minutes of heartbreak, screaming,…
Just watched this after Election Day and couldn’t help but notice that not only are the scientists/foundations/nerds pretty vilified here, but also really flips the script on diversity being presented in modern blockbusters. Like the diversity characters were either killed or really really annoying, in a way that it almost felt like a twist when glen powell was portrayed as the Everyman, charitable hero. Definitely a shift from what we’ve seen over the last few years, and interesting to see…
Not overreaching, or Oscar batey, just a solid film. Brilliant pacing, beautiful shots, tension building score. Fiennes is awesome, lithgow somehow passes as a catholic cardinal. I think for any catholic, it really explores the mysteries of the church that we hear echoed throughout mass, and provides a human, modern theological examination of flawed people trying to execute on a celestial process