So unnecessary, so banal.
I thought I'd start my year with something easy and underground; I've grown tired of the commercial blockbusters Hollywood keeps on regurgitating year after year. Yet, this film lacks the very soul it tried to capture, at least to the extent of what a docudrama can achieve. Having still been unable to watch Luca Guadagnino's recent acclaimed films, this review serves no less than a pure critique for The Protagonists. Do not treat this as a…
I am eighteen years old as of watching Past Lives and writing this review. She is seventeen. From the moment I heard about this film, I immediately had a hunch about how it would resonate with my current self, or at the very least, the fantasies I was creating in my head. Celine Song validated all the things I feared when it came to losing someone very special, someone that was seemingly sent by destiny—an In-Yun—and yet, they were never…
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Oh, boy. So, where should we start? First and foremost, are we completely sure that Denis Villeneuve didn't just spook David Fincher to give him the directorial credit for this film? I mean, seriously, are we absolutely certain? 'Cause boy, oh boy. That was hands-down one of the best crime thrillers I have ever seen. Period.
The tagline for Prisoners reads "Every Moment Matters," and it embodied that to the…
