Foxtrot (2017)
“These are your demons talking.” Radically simple with its plot and emotionally exhausting with its tee-tottering tone, Foxtrot is a film which I don’t think I would advise others to revisit […]
Category Archives: Drama
Tully (2018)
“She seems really awake.” Even with its surprising narrative twists and turns and shocking revelations, there are few false truths orchestrated throughout Tully, only a reality where blemishes and pain and anxiety […]
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
“The fate of the universe is at stake.” Too many moviegoers are too easily appeased by what they simply want, and to remedy this epidemic of the mostly unearned praise […]
The Miracle Season (2018)
“There’s no end to the ifs.” The nuanced language of real life is extremely tough to translate into a good film, and despite its best and most adamant intentions, The Miracle […]
A Quiet Place (2018)
“Who are we if we can’t protect them?” I normally try to avoid opening night for blockbusters / horror films because the unpredictable crowds always scare me. Walking into A Quiet […]
I Can Only Imagine (2018)
“You’re not good enough.” In the same way that I struggle to recommend or even enjoy many animated kid’s movies nowadays, faith-based films (specifically the countless Christian productions flooding my […]
Love, Simon (2018)
“I’m just like you.” We all have secrets, some huge and some small, some relatively light and others incredibly dark. And if we hold on to them for too long […]
Annihilation (2018)
“It’s not easy to move on.” Sometimes you just have to let the dust of things settle. To resonate, to form scar tissue, to further rationalize with the wisdom and […]
Red Sparrow (2018)
“Don’t give him all of you.” More like a slow, suggestive death knell than the flurry of frenzied action you’re likely to expect, Red Sparrow is the sort of film that simultaneously […]
Phantom Thread (2017)
“I cannot begin my day with confrontations…I don’t have time for confrontations.” Something about Phantom Thread simply fascinates. As carefully constructed in its reckless romanticism as Hitchcock’s’ 1940 Best Picture winner Rebecca, itself a […]
