Bad Education (2020)
“It’s only a puff piece if you let it be a puff piece.” Bad Education has a lot to grapple with. A lot of multiple choice questions. On one hand, […]
Tag Archives: Biopic
Judy (2019)
“Not too dangerous. Not too exciting.” Thoroughly convincing yet occasionally too clichéd to take this biopic to the next level, director Rupert Goold’s admirable Judy nevertheless entertains at all costs, […]
Bombshell (2019)
“News is like a ship. You take your hands off the wheel and it pulls hard to the left.” Bombshell is a precise film. The blocking has been staunchly rehearsed, […]
Richard Jewell (2019)
“People believe in the badge.” Richard Jewell is, on the surface, a worthy true life telling about a lowly and ill-regarded man desperate to help all those near him with […]
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
“There is always something you can do with the mad that you feel.” Therapeutic, life-affirming, and deeply religious without ever relying on preaching, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is […]
The King (2019)
“You must first draw them all in. All of them.” From the very first shot, tracking across and pushing forward through yet another muddied wasteland of bodies pointlessly slaughtered in […]
Harriet (2019)
“Fear is your enemy. Trust in God.” Not much about Harriet was first-time news for me. She was the subject of a grade school report I wrote as a pre-teen, and my […]
Rocketman (2019)
“You gotta kill the person you were born to be in order to become the person you wanna be.” Before the picture even began, I jotted down in my notebook […]
Extremely Wicked, Shocking Evil and Vile (2019)
“Show no emotion at all.” Let me just get this out the way: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (which I’ll simply refer to as “Extremely Wicked” to avoid my own […]
The Dirt (2019)
“We weren’t a band. We were a gang.” With the gaudy packaging of a Girls Gone Wild VHS tape told through the investigative style of VH1’s old Behind the Music […]
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