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Still Walking 2008
A quiet, yet not at all peaceful, investigation on grief and family, Still Walking is made of the facts of life, the small jabs in family conversations where simmering resentments and hidden feelings come to the fore, and where the way you look at someone tells a whole life story.
Kore-eda, like Ozu before him, is a master at allowing his camera to frame his subjects in a way that highlights the humanity in them. In all honesty, we'd all be a little better if more films dared to focus on humans instead of the flashy things happening to or around them.
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Get Out 2017
A chilling, metaphorical portrait of the horrors of racism in America, Get Out is both genuinely scary and forcefully thoughtful, using its ever evolving premise to make a finely tuned statement about the black experience without ever sounding preachy or condescending.
Daniel Kaluuya and Catherine Keener both give marvelous performances. Jordan Peele clearly knows how to set a scene and make the most out of his actors - his work on MADtv and especially Key & Peele had already shown his…
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45 Years 2015
45 Years, Andrew Haigh’s portrayal of a marriage affected by the past, is on its surface the opposite of his earlier, fantastic Weekend (2012): the latter a story of two people meeting, getting to know each other and falling in love, this a study of two people who have long been (seemingly happily) married but start drifting apart after a sudden relevation a week before their 45th marriage anniversary (complete with dinner and celebration).
Making that assumption, however, would be…
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