Leave the World Behind (2023)
“There is no going back to normal.” We’re not immediately sure why Amanda (Julia Roberts) casts open the New York apartment curtains to waken her husband Clay (Ethan Hawke), an […]
“There is no going back to normal.” We’re not immediately sure why Amanda (Julia Roberts) casts open the New York apartment curtains to waken her husband Clay (Ethan Hawke), an […]
“It’s not easy to admit when we are wrong.” At its dirty rotten core, Old Dads is an earnest film about how hard it is to be in the wrong, and […]
“It’ll be fun. Nice change of pace.” I’m not quite sure why River Wild was made, or why somehow decided almost three decades later was the right time to film a […]
“Until I heard the voice, I’d never done a crazy thing in my whole life.” A pitch perfect opening montage introduces us to Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) as he briefly […]
“You don’t win every hand.” Going into Air, I expected most of what I had previously heard to be true. It’s a “dad” movie, the type of film that will play […]
“Everyone has a mess.” Breaking up is hard to do, especially when you’re the unwilling and unwitting recipient. It’s messy, confusing, sometimes even literally debilitating. Rye Lane understands these push […]
“Welcome to the wonderful world of sound.” Years ago, during my stint as a barfly, I remember my older brother once taking our local haunt’s last call special: everything that […]
“Maybe he just doesn’t like you anymore.” The first shot of The Banshees of Inisherin is intentional, and it has more soul and purpose than the rest of this picture does […]
“Prove it’s nonsense.” To watch The Wonder is to step into a confessional only to find no divider between the priest and the penitent; here seeing is part of the believing, […]
“Your brother is with the ancestors.” Intimate and epic. Bold, colorful, otherworldly, built with great scale and by a collective of inspired eyes. This flawed yet grieving film is rich […]