Even if you are not on the specific wavelength that I Saw the TV Glow is operating, the particular feelings it is communicating, the story of identity for two people, one trapped torturously in their cage, one tearing themselves arduously free works.
It works for everybody, because it's the fucking truth. Even if, for Jane Schoenbrun, it seems to me like this is a very personal tale, its truths transcend the singular and are sweeping - of a kingdom of…
Mike Leigh returning to make the kind of movie he mainly made in Thatcher's Britain, only in 2002 nobody wanted to hear it, and this movie fell through the cracks like probably nothing else he's done for 40 years.
Even by his standards, All or Nothing is steeped in misery so deep through an ensemble so large that the cracks of light that come shining through (God BLESS Ruth Sheen, the High Hopes magic recaptured) blaze all the more brightly,…
If you get out, your memories and your history will all crumble behind you with nobody to hold down the fort. If you don't get out, you will.
I never watched this movie in my life, and right now I wish I had kept it that way. Fantasy is as big a part of cinema as anything, but these real-world ones seem to me to be entirely unbearable, because that scene where George Bailey comes home on Christmas Eve is…
Revisiting this it hits just as hard and is just as distressing. My niggling issues with the writing basically went out the window, my disinterest in Olivia Colman went along with it (her tiny reactions are the heart of the film) my feeling for the editing went down some (the first Gatiss scene is almost bad), while my appreciation for the production design went up some. That Florian Zeller was not nominated for Best Director at the Oscars is a…
