Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
I wanted to love this. Battle scenes, particularly the snowy one, we’re incredible (so much so it felt like Waterloo paled in comparison) and Joaquin Phoenix gave such an interesting and unexpected performance that it’s almost better to think of it as an art film than the commercial historical epic you’d expect (and dare I say hope for). It did suffer from the curse of the bio-pic, it felt like we covered so much ground that it was hard to…
A film that serves to remind us of our own worst qualities and tiny fantasies we hold deep and dark without ourselves.
I thought the promise of the trailer and the film itself were both great, but certainly different. Especially for the first few acts I there was a certain repetitive almost nauseating amount of narcissism that took me a moment to be able to grab onto the tone. But in the end I actually think it’s tone is what…