Nick Taylor

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Favorite films

  • Atlantics
  • Holiday
  • Nashville
  • The Piano

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  • My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

    ★★★½

  • Chocolat

    ★★★★½

  • Wolfwalkers

    ★★★★★

  • Volcano

    ★★★½

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  • My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

    My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

    ★★★½

    Not without a sentimental streak in writing and direction, but it’s amazing how much the cast really finds such an honest version of this tale to inhabit. Day-Lewis, Fricker, and O’Connor are all tremendous. God, imagine having an Oscar win as perfectly deserving as DDL, let alone three

  • Wolfwalkers

    Wolfwalkers

    ★★★★★

    Oh one of the films of the decade, no question. I was (and am) so bowled over by the emotional experience WolfWalkers gives us, but I’m even more impressed this time by how controlled it all feels, how assured the direction is with composition and color. Can’t pretend I’ve fully grasped how to rate direction for animated films, but between this and Flow (and a recent revisit to Paprika) I’m really growing to appreciate that work even more. Absolutely marvelous. And I…

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  • Emilia Pérez

    Emilia Pérez

    ★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • The Whale

    The Whale

    Just embarrassingly grandiose and martyring for a project about a guy’s slow, selfish, day-by-day march towards his own annihilation. The score and the sound mix are appallingly applied. Samuel D. Hunter and his script (and presumably his original play) deserve The Hague. I whined in pity and shame when Matty Libatique and Mark Friedberg’s names popped up in the credits in the same way I cried when I saw Affonso Gonçalves in the credits for Don’t Worry Darling. You can’t even…

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