“Trouble in Paradise” is an absolutely thrilling love story. The confidence in the script combined with Lubitsch’s perfect execution with the camera and pacing makes this movie incredibly watchable. More than that, “Trouble in Paradise” has perfect performances from our three main characters. Miriam Hopkins and Herbert Marshall are asked to perform an impossible task for 1932: be thieves that are likable. So likable, I found myself hoping they were going to get away with it. And even more improbably,…
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Grand Hotel 1932
There’s something magical about an intersecting narrative. When multiple characters with their own desires and aspirations interweave with each other, allowing characters to grow and sometimes meet a fate that was unforeseen, it can sometimes feel unnatural or forced…and it certainly does in “Grand Hotel” from time-to-time. But, so too can it feel crucial to see this story unfold because there is a sense of hope found in Flammchen (a very good performance from Joan Crawford) and Kringelein’s (Lionel Barrymore,…
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Mission: Impossible – Fallout 2018
Mission Impossible: Fallout, isn’t just a movie that takes every step firmly and with confidence as it struts its way through the theater: it stomps you into submission along the way. The action sequences are incredible; some of the best ever captured. Unexpectedly, though, the characters and their particular arcs weighed on me heavily. Ethan Hunt has always been more surface than depth, but as both his motivations and the bonds with his team—and the others he cares about—are simultaneously…
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mother! 2017
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
With Mother!, I tried to stay relatively in the dark when it came to trailers and information about the movie. There was a trailer during Dunkirk that was nothing but sound from the film and I thought that was plenty. I trust Aronofsky, Bardem, and Lawrence all by themselves, so I didn’t need convincing in a collaboration between them. Something happened during this movie that has never happened to me before: I began to shake. Before I get to this,…
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