The Map That Leads to You (2025)
“I just like to know what’s next.” Life is about to get serious for Heather (Madelyn Cline). School is over and the real world is knocking, with her invite to […]
Tag Archives: Adaptation
It Ends with Us (2024)
“It was a beautiful mess.” Well-meaning, thoughtful, and yet too long for its own good, It Ends with Us is a mildly successful adaptation and depiction of trauma and all […]
Practical Magic (1998)
“Be careful what you wish for.” It seems that part of the human condition is to want – to crave – that which we cannot have. Even The Rolling Stones […]
Spencer (2021)
“I have absolutely no idea where I am.” Cool, calm, collected. We first see Diana, Princess of Wales (Kristen Stewart, delivering one of the best performances of her still youthful […]
Dear Evan Hansen (2021)
“Now we can both pretend we have friends.” Dear Evan Hansen is a novel concept…I think. It’s a musical about a loner who makes song out of situations when he […]
The Woman in the Window (2021)
“I just don’t know what you’re going for.” Delirious, derelict, and practically deranged during the unhinged and mismanaged opening chapter, The Woman in the Window is somehow one of the few […]
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020)
“Can’t tell a fool nothin’.” Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom gives us so much to reconcile, to consider, to wrestle with. The co-leading duo of quite literal masterful performances both sport […]
i’m thinking of ending things (2020)
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions. Their lives a mimicry. Their passions a quotation.” The wind’s chiming as I type these words. I hear the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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