Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
I haven’t felt this way about a movie in a long time. I laughed. I cried. I felt the seductive soul of a thrumming Mumbai in every minute.
My favorite film theme: beauty in the mundane.
Life is bleak, banal, and fragile but this film’s social realism, dreamlike romantic imagery, and interpersonal melancholy deliver an important message: how in-between moments can offer transcendence. Female friendship, too. The score of soft jazz perfectly compliments the sensitive cinematography… ugh, just beautiful! Also…
Crying to movies on planes is the most consistent thing about me. So is Saoirse Ronan’s ability to deliver the most devastating, breathtaking performance of the year, again and again. This one drapes its sweeping landscapes over the immeasurable weight of generational damage—where love and disappointment are tangled in an endless loop. Through Rona’s ever-changing nail color, we track time, addiction, and the futile hope that broken people will mend. The story wrestles with the inescapable pull of mental illness,…