I underrated this on my first viewing, but it stands as a good mark on Nancy Meyers’ career as it’s likely the final feature-length creative effort we’re getting from her.
Nancy, maybe wanting to break the mold of her lauded romcoms, takes a typical romcom structure and subverts it to be a more or less buddy comedy. We’re De Niro’s role any younger, you’d swear they’d fall in love by the end. And De Niro is flawless here, playing to…
Just the sweatiest movie ever made, and what is probably Al Pacino's career best performance. It combines his signature anger with his sensitive brooding to perfect effect. Pacino is dynamite.
Sidney Lumet's direction here is superb. He keeps things tense the entire runtime (the screenwriters too - starting off the film with the beginning of the crime and no planning is brilliant), knows when to provide a shred of levity, and never once places your loyalty with anyone other than…
A documentary about the "endless summer" - where, if one has enough time and money, he can travel the world following summer year-round finding the perfect wave. This is, simply put, a remarkable film. Pure cinematic escapism at its finest. This struck a real chord with me for some reason; it could be the grey, cold, dingy day outside or it could be something more, but this film is just incredible. The gorgeous, on-location photography is beyond words. What most…
A mysterious alien seductress preys on the men of Scotland. Third time seeing this film and it's definitely my favorite of 2014. This film is breathtaking in every regard. It's definitely one of the greatest films of the new millennium if not the greatest not made by Wong, Lynch, or Weerasethakul. This is what the mad glory of cinema is all about.
