Jackie (2016)
“Let them see what they’ve done.” Pablo Larraín’s biopic Jackie is absolutely stunning on every level. It’s not a film you watch and ask questions requiring more historical context or data or details. […]
Category Archives: Biopic
Hidden Figures (2016)
“I’ve never seen a mind like the one your daughter has.” Through the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement and the paranoid landscape of the 60’s space race with Russia, Hidden Figures‘ grounded […]
Loving (2016)
“It’s God’s law.” There’s about as much to like about Loving as is there is to shudder away from and turn a cold shoulder towards. Strangely, the film seems to be in […]
Bleed for This (2016)
“He’s an animal.” Here’s a film that wants us to believe in miracles. Think Kirk Gibson’s hobbled and hunched over ’88 World Series game winning home run was an act of […]
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
“It’s not killing in a war.” Hacksaw Ridge is explosive, affecting, gruesome, and most of all manipulative. We expect these hallmarks from a Mel Gibson film. He’s no friend of nuance; […]
Queen of Katwe (2016)
“In chess, the small one can become the big one.” The more I read about world affairs and watch the news and study foreign cinema, the more I discount […]
The Birth of a Nation (2016)
“You listen to him and you might just make it into heaven.” Courage. Wisdom. Vision. These are the traits a young Nat Turner is told he possesses long before serving […]
Sully (2016)
“You can accomplish anything if you’re never in a hurry.” I genuinely fear for the future of biopic cinema, especially when they’re now made so soon after the actual incident that […]
Southside with You (2016)
“The liberal-minded people will think it’s precious and the closed-minded people will think it’s pathetic.” The saying typically goes that behind every great man is a great woman. That’s not the […]
Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
“Music has been and is my life.” What an absolutely abysmal, ingratiating, self-righteous film this one is. Florence Foster Jenkins somehow unfolds both slowly and abruptly, similar to the worst American Idol audition […]
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