Nobody makes me cry like Mike Leigh.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste with one of the best performances of the decade.
Plain and Simple.
Nobody makes me cry like Mike Leigh.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste with one of the best performances of the decade.
Plain and Simple.
Oofta!
Kind've like a picture perfect adaptation of a Great American Novel that doesn't exist. This would go down so well over a semester of some variant of literature class.
It has a tried and true thematic sensibility to it that makes you think of classic – and timeless in their commentary – American stories. Like a Gatsby or a Grapes or Wrath but also directly draws from more contemporary epochal masters like WG Sebald and Saul Bellow, as well…
That was, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the greatest things I have ever experienced. I don't really know what to say.
I'll die happy if Dolan never reaches this height again because at least he reached it once.
I know, something something Nietzsche.