Life (2015)
“You’re doing something else. It’s not Hollywood.” Life recounts the unearthly existence of James Dean the actor and James Dean the Indiana farm boy as a tale of two men living […]
Category Archives: Drama
Victoria (2015)
“Show me what you’ve got.” 134 minutes in length. One continuous shot. Three attempts to get it right. Traveling through the clubs and streets and rooftops of Berlin, zooming around […]
Christmas, Again (2015)
“It’s just one month a year.” Christmas, Again comes to us in the midst of the holidays, and what a truly surprising, methodical, well-rounded gift it is. Should you turn on […]
Victor Frankenstein (2015)
“What you’re doing is wrong.” In essence, there is little convention to the Frankenstein story or its mythology. Creating life from death should be spectacular, controversial, and dazzling. Victor Frankenstein is just […]
Creed (2015)
“I’m afraid of taking on the name and losing.” There is little doubt in my mind that people will flock to theaters thinking that they’re going to watch a new […]
Brooklyn (2015)
“Home is home.” The thing about Brooklyn that lingers with you most is its honesty. A story with simple sensibilities, straightforwardly told, classically made. It may be a fictitious picture, but you […]
Room (2015)
“We all have the same strong.” Too often we forget that the world – our rendering and no one else’s – is seen through our eyes, at our height, at […]
Call Me Lucky (2015)
“I remember not really getting the depth of what Barry had been through.” One of the greatest strengths of documentary filmmaking, and perhaps the most important, is the medium’s intuitive […]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015)
“Mockingjay, may your aim be as true as your heart is pure.” In my review of the previous installment in The Hunger Games franchise, I applauded its technical prowess while deriding its […]
The 33 (2015)
“We may be looking at a weakness in the mountain’s internal structure.” In the context of real-life events, the Chilean Miner’s Rescue of 2010 was a global phenomenon which led to […]
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