The fantastic performances by Morgan Freeman and Florence Pugh really drive this compelling movie about loss and addiction. The film takes the audience on Pugh's nonlinear road to recovery where she gets the unexpected help of the man whose daughter was killed in the very car crash which started her downward spiral. The best laugh came after a guy was caught in bed with Freeman's underage granddaughter and as he flees the residence in his underwear, an elderly neighbor starts berating the guy by repeatedly calling him a "fuck boy" and proceeds to squirt him with her garden hose.
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John Wick: Chapter 4 2023
John Wick: Chapter 4 not only delivers on everything you would want and expect from one of these films, it probably over delivers as the action here is insane and plentiful. I've always loved how these films have looked when it comes to colors, settings, sets, and the fighting, yet this film feels like it just raised the bar on all of it -- particularly in the sequence where all of the action is filmed overhead in a multi-room building. The ending was certainly a surprise to me, however given that this really is the ultimate John Wick movie, it seemed rather fitting.
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The Wolfpack 2015
There's certainly a story worth telling here, but director Crystal Moselle does a fairly lousy job in doing so. The most basic, yet important question is never actually answered: How did this film ever come to be if these boys live in such isolated conditions and why did this family who has been so vigilant in keeping the outside world at an arm's length allow you into their home to film them? Without knowing that, you can't help but watch the movie with a suspicious eye and wonder if what you're witnessing is something closer to reality television than an actual documentary.
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The Dinner 2017
The Dinner could have been a quality film if director Oren Moverman didn't make a mess of the material and turn out such a frustrating experience. The film is about a conversation between four people about one specific topic, but is interrupted time and time again by phone calls, flashbacks, food servers, more flashbacks, unrelated arguments, angry participants leaving the table, etc., which puts off any meaningful discussion about said topic until the very end. The performances here are quite good and the story has a lot of potential, but it all feels rather wasted due to how poorly this film has been pieced together.
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