This means something.
The first scene of this movie, the very first thought that Spielberg wants to plant in our minds, is a conversation having to overcome a three way language barrier. Language, and communication more broadly, is central to this movie. It is a movie that, in a radical act of faith and empathy, sees the still young Spielberg doing his level best to imagine the reasons for the dissolution of his family when he was a child. Some…
Here’s to the ones who dream…
An audaciously evil movie. A three hour long break up fuck, desire and revulsion coiled together in a horrific and perverse dance, impossible to separate. A film of rare anger and venom from a filmmaker who has been so obsessed with love and drive. A dance on the grave of those who came before, showering the loose soil with tears.
From the filmmaker behind La La Land, a myopic treacle tart that romanticizes a…
Genuinely one of the best things ever made. I will take any and every chance to see this with an audience, because the way this thing plays even 101 years later is absolutely insane. God, I fucking love movies.
“YOU ARE DYING,” in red LED arcade lights, moments after beautiful road chalk letters inscribing “THERE IS STILL TIME” on an empty suburban street. Jane Schoenbrun is out here to crack every single egg they can.
Never anything short of spellbinding, but for stretches in the middle I found myself wondering how they were going to pull these threads together in a cohesive, affecting way. Needn’t have doubted; the last 40 minutes of this land with the weight of a…
In a lot of ways that matter, Jacksonville is an island off the coast of the United States. I was born here, and though I had an opportunity to leave here after film school, I returned and have remained here. It’s not much, but it’s a life.
The first year back - 2016 - I had a cast of friends from earlier eras of life who were around and kept things interesting and warm. But one by one they all…
