I could've done with less of the hallucinatory stuff in the jungle but as a portrait of overwhelming, all-consuming passion, Queer is phenomenal. Guadagnino's recreation of the "thunderbolt" scene ala The Godfather where Lee sees Allerton for the first time knocked me out. Every needledrop in this film is note-perfect but my favorite of the year, by far, is New Order's Leave Me Alone. I cannot stop thinking about Daniel Craig's pained face in that scene.
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All We Imagine as Light 2024
A quiet, wistful look at loneliness and longing in modern Mumbai with the specificity of a documentary & the lyricism of a tone poem. I was completely bowled over by this film. I can't wait to see it again & be enveloped by its beautiful nighttime photography & swooning jazzy score
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Oppenheimer 2023
“Theory will only take you so far”
The most ingenious aspect of Oppenheimer is the film’s structure. For the first two hours, the glimpses of Oppenheimer’s security hearing are overshadowed by a series of 20-30 second scenes, like split uranium atoms, create the propulsive energy for the successful explosion at Los Alamos.
But Oppenheimer barely gets to savor his triumph before the film scratches to a halt. The brilliant physicist finds himself discarded by the government, bound by reputation to…
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
"Whose land is this, Henry?"
"My land...my land"
Killers Of The Flower Moon is an aching, somber epic about a blood-stained American dream born out of treachery, murder & the dispossession of Native Americans. In Mollie & Ernest's cursed love, we see genocidal white supremacy in all its paternalism, greed, & dehumanization. Lily Gladstone's steely-determination to survive in the face of extermination made me tear up multiple times. But it's the ending completely wrecked me. I can't think of another movie where the…Translated from by
