Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2016)
“I saw you on the TV. It was just like a movie.” Judging Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk based on its sheeny surface level seems practically unfair. Less than a handful of […]
Category Archives: Drama
Moonlight (2016)
“Who the hell you think you is?” The illustrious autobiography A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah was required summer reading heading into my freshman year of college. […]
The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
“Why am I so grotesque?” There has to be an underlying reason as to why so many high school films exist. I mean, those developmental years – when we’re all too […]
The Handmaiden (2016)
“What does a man really want?” I specifically remember spending a California Christmas at my grandparents’ apartment as a young boy. Walking through the courtyard, tossing pennies into the fountain, […]
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; […]
Almost Christmas (2016)
“Family is never a bother.” Like any given holiday film, Almost Christmas includes madcap humor and the drama of lost loved ones. Usually the two don’t gel. So it’s with great surprise that […]
Arrival (2016)
“We are so bound by time. By its order.” I was recently recommended a podcast called The Ezra Klein Show. Klein’s a liberal journalist and the editor-in-chief at Vox. Klein, […]
American Honey (2016)
“What’s your dream?” American Honey can only be a film that lingers with you if you take the proper time to linger in its presence. Director Andrea Arnold’s picture stands at […]
Mr. Church (2016)
“There’s nothing like a really good story.” Disliking a movie is not hard work. To merely dislike a story, an individual, or a thing suggests the sort of distanced and […]
The Accountant (2016)
“Sooner or later, different scares people.” I suspect crowds will be drawn to The Accountant because they either know real accountants or bear the job title. Surely, most pilots saw Sully, soldiers went to American […]
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