The Glass Castle (2017)
“Talking is not trying.” Roughly halfway through Jeannette Walls’ subdued, resilient memoir, the family drives their beat-up Oldsmobile lemon through Oklahoma to mining country in Welch, West Virginia. While the […]
Category Archives: Drama
A Ghost Story (2017)
“Is there something there?” Contrary to the celebratory nature of work promotions and Olympic podium ceremonies and battlefield war cries, life isn’t a game any one us ever actually wins. […]
Person to Person (2017)
“It’s big and it’s not big, depending on how you see it.” Brief, bustling, and as bewildering as it is understated, Person to Person serves as a delightful appetizer of a film […]
Dunkirk (2017)
“If we go there we’ll die.” Christopher Nolan seems to be a director and a storyteller obsessed by the passage, the overall meaning, and the possibility of exploring different pieces […]
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
“I did not start this war.” As overtly and obviously religious in tone as it is visually inspired by the Fall of the Roman Empire, War for the Planet of the […]
The Beguiled (2017)
“Are you frightened?” The Beguiled is not the sort of film where you should ever try to dwell upon any one thing it tries to be about. It’s too sprawling, […]
Okja (2017)
“If it’s cheap, they’ll eat it.” Okja takes place in the present day for a reason. Rather than push its lavishly hyperbolic take on an old Aesop Fable out into a […]
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
“I feel like I could be doing more.” As the sixth leading role in a film since the dawn of the new millenium – and the third reboot of the […]
The Book of Henry (2017)
“One little miscalculation and the whole thing fails.” I’m happy that it took a long seven months, but I have now finally seen my least favorite film of 2017, and […]
Everything, Everything (2017)
“Every day feels exactly the same.” Everything, Everything doesn’t stand a chance from the start because its head rests somewhere other than on the shoulders of a dependable and thoughtful script or […]
