Joker (2019)
“For my whole life, I didn’t know if I really even existed.” Joker descends on clown for hire Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) painting his face in a lit makeup mirror. […]
“For my whole life, I didn’t know if I really even existed.” Joker descends on clown for hire Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) painting his face in a lit makeup mirror. […]
“I’m taking care of myself.” It’s really a shame how very disappointing this one turned out. What wanted to be a double handed middle finger and a verbal “f*** you” […]
“The idea is to win.” In what’s sure to be one of the most divisive, experimental, imperfect yet vital films of 2018, Vice is essentially a highbrow, cinematic instructional guide to the […]
“Every time we’ve moved it’s gotten colder.” It was so easy to get bored by Sam Mendes’ 2008 film Revolutionary Road – a showcase for brilliant performers in a stodgy adaptation – […]
“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 […]
“You have no idea what it does to a man.” More serious than an old spaghetti Western and more grounded than one of the many revisionist takes on this al […]
“I always figured sophistication would be easy to learn if I ever needed it.” Brimming and boiling over with the possibility of a great promise, Molly’s Game is another entry in a […]
“It’s God’s law.” There’s about as much to like about Loving as is there is to shudder away from and turn a cold shoulder towards. Strangely, the film seems to be in […]