Sound of Metal (2020)
“The hearing that you have lost is not coming back.” Guitar static lingers and anticipation awaits in the opening sequence of Sound of Metal, quite possibly the best and most […]
Category Archives: Drama
Sylvie’s Love (2020)
“You’re not ordinary to me.” Sylvie’s Love feels like the kind of rare, finely aged, backroom bottle you’d have to ask a sommelier to bring to the table instead of […]
Love Actually (2003)
“Love is everywhere.” I find it nearly to impossible to not swoon over the sentimental beginning of Love Actually. Released at the start of 2003’s cozy holiday season, the film […]
Uncle Frank (2020)
“You gonna be the person you decide to be, or are you gonna be the person everyone else tells you you are?” He sits in the corner reading and thinking. […]
The Midnight Sky (2020)
“Is anyone out there?” So very stagnant and stationary, so tragic and so stifling, The Midnight Sky is a textbook example of a film that begs to be felt but […]
Driveways (2020)
“Why didn’t we see her?” Heartfelt, present, incredibly personal. Driveways is the kind of movie that softly kneads its way into your soul, almost like a parent massaging Vicks salve onto […]
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
“It’s where my people come from.” A few years back I literally bought into the hype of J.D. Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy. Despite shelling out the money and having the […]
Let Him Go (2020)
“I won’t be coming back here without him.” When it comes to this stodgy yet sturdy film adaptation of Let Him Go, seemingly suffering from dissociative identity disorder, there’s something […]
His House (2020)
“We don’t belong here.” The undisputed best scary movie of 2020 – and one of the best pictures in these temultuous times – is His House, a phycological thriller fueled […]
Over the Moon (2020)
“It’s not a silly myth. It’s real.” Gorgeously animated, ornately representative of Asian culture, and at times frustratingly too familiar, Over the Moon is a loving and lavish space endeavor […]
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