The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
“He was sort of a gentleman.” Clocking in with a run-time just over 90 minutes long, The Old Man & the Gun is both charming and surprisingly languid, going nowhere and […]
Tag Archives: Drama
Home for the Holidays (1995)
“Are you losing your mind yet?” Traditions are supposed to have deep, significant meaning, passing beliefs from one generation onto the next. They’re an immortal lifeline simultaneously linking the present […]
The Girl in the Spider’s Web (2018)
“I realized too late that I committed an abomination.” From the opening title sequence that oozes with James Bond’s spy sensibilities, it’s quite clear The Girl in the Spider’s Web wants to […]
The Holiday Calendar (2018)
“Each day a door opens and the toy inside matches something that happens.” As festive and jolly as it is flat and hollow, The Holiday Calendar is a seriously abysmal film destined […]
Nobody’s Fool (2018)
“You are an emotional hoarder.” Looking at my notes after snoring through most of Nobody’s Fool, I found the sentence “it just hasn’t done anything” scribbled down three separate times. This […]
Madeline’s Madeline (2018)
“What are we making?” Experimental, emotionally overwhelming, and appropriately dressed in shades of ambiguity, Madeline’s Madeline is an obscure and enigmatic film that’s comfortable in the many skins it so easily […]
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
“I can’t think of anyone more outrageous than me.” Back in 2007, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story served up a brilliant deconstruction of the musical biopic. Fast rise, inevitable fall, […]
The Hate U Give (2018)
“It is impossible to be unarmed when our blackness is the weapon they fear.” My head turned to see a middle-aged black woman some rows back with a young man, […]
Private Life (2018)
“We wanted to ask you about your eggs.” There’s an inherently uncomfortable weirdness to watching a film titled Private Life. Engaging with cinema is – whether done in a theater or […]
All About Nina (2018)
“You’re not familiar to me.” If comedy truly boils down tragedy plus time, then there have been very few films that so stridently prove the equation to be correct with […]
