You probably know the parade scene even if you haven't ever seen the film, but there are a ton of shots stuffed into it most delicately so it's hard to recall them all. You have the group of dancers gliding toward and down the staircase, the man shaking up and down so quickly that his hat starts to fall off, and the child on his parent's shoulders covering his ears. All great, humanist portraits of a diverse and lively city.…
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Thunder Road 2018
Eric Johnson is my best friend. We've known each other for almost 15 years. We met the first week of high school in a theater class and his first impression of me was that I was a pompous sophomore. In truth, I was just a nervous freshman. Soon enough, we grew past his snap judgment and we became collaborators of legend. Clan Man? Friend-Gro? Spartanaire Spring Show 2008? Yeah, you've probably heard of them. We've shared music, feelings, faith, and…
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The Dark Knight Rises 2012
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Landings are hard, and Nolan & Co. show us this just as much when they succeed in wrapping things up as when they don't. Bane is a nice variation on what Gotham villainy can look like, and I don't particularly mind the fact that his presence is "undercut" by the reveal that he's Talia's sidekick, it's mostly that it's so rushed and then that's the last we see of Bane. Rises does well with tying the emotion of this film to…
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The Dark Knight 2008
Maybe Nolan is a more intuitive filmmaker than we give him credit for. My perception of our collective perception of 2023's Best Director is that he is a calculating, exacting filmmaker. From what I can tell, he does his storyboards like a good boy and we know that he is deeply invested in the nuts and bolts of the technological side of filmmaking.
When I look at that car chase that has been dogged on for a lack of coherence,…
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First Reformed 2017
I was so excited to watch this movie, I had already planned to rewatch Diary of a Country Priest right after watching it. But this movie packs such a wallop and is so dense with thought, I'm going to have to wait until I approach another dark and deep religious drama.
That's a testament to the power of First Reformed. I knew it was going to be heavy, but I wasn't thinking it would be this heavy. I should have…
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Sound of Metal 2019
Helen Keller has a spectacular quote that only someone of her specific personal knowledge could have understood and only someone of her impressive pith could have said: "Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people." There exist variations on that quote, but its central message is impossible to misunderstand. Neither blindness nor deafness is easy to have in a world full of mostly seeing and hearing people, but they create different obstacles to overcome.
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