Triple Frontier (2019)
“What we are about to do is criminal.” Triple Frontier has the right things going for it to succeed. A solid pedigree if you will. Talented director, a skilled cinematographer […]
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Five Feet Apart (2019)
“We’re breathing borrowed air.” Some people will like Five Feet Apart. I mostly didn’t, just to be upfront about it. The film’s informative, delivers a few decent laughs and a handful […]
The Dawn Wall (2018)
“Why are you doing this?” As the lesser known of last year’s rock-climbing docs, The Dawn Wall takes a drastically different approach compared to 2018’s Best Documentary Feature winner Free […]
Meet Joe Black (1998)
“Who knows? Lightning could strike.” Meet Joe Black is a glorious, supernatural, peculiar movie. An intimate epic about love, about loss, about life and death and the many moving, interchangeable […]
Fighting with My Family (2019)
“Wrestling’s in your blood.” As commercialized and accessible as Fighting with My Family might seem on the surface level, I’m fairly certain that I’ve never seen anything exactly like this movie […]
Captain Marvel (2019)
“You struggle to show your emotions.” Nowadays the origin story for a new superhero character has become an unenviable and arduous task. Most of Marvel’s mainstays have gotten the similar […]
Free Solo (2018)
“There’s no margin for error.” A part of me almost wishes Free Solo didn’t exist. That this historic human feat dodged the media hoopla and the camera lights and relied on […]
Paddleton (2019)
“We’re neighbors.” A staple in cinema of late, the Bromance tends to trend towards the comedy genre. It’s easier to really convince us of a close friendship when gross gags […]
Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
“All art is dangerous.” One of the very first scenes in Velvet Buzzsaw – a cinematic approach to Juvelian satire with playfully inventive savagery and a generous splash of acerbic […]
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
“A warrior’s spirit needs a warrior’s body.” By alloying together the futuristic dystopia of Blade Runner with the flimsy romance elements of The Hunger Games, all while styling them both […]
