Midsommar (2019)
“It’s like another world.” Midsommar opens with a shot which summarizes the entire story in a four-paneled tableaux of Pagan paintings. In a modern sense, it’s like vague GPS directions […]
Tag Archives: Drama
Yesterday (2019)
“I’m trying to live outside the conventional concept of time.” For all of the messiness and the massive lapses in logic that occur early and often and throughout the entirety […]
Plus One (2019)
“It’s nice to tell someone that you’re in.” As a single man who’s coasted on the last legs of his late twenties as long as humanly possible, I can personally […]
Aniara (2019)
“We’ve built our own little planet.” Aniara isn’t a nihilistic film, nor is it completely devoid of hope, but it’s also one with an uncompromising outlook on mankind’s self-destructive tendencies, […]
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 […]
See You Yesterday (2019)
“If you had that kind of power, what would you do? What would you change?” The colorful and corny poster might suggest that See You Yesterday deserves to be taken every […]
The Perfection (2019)
“We don’t make mistakes here.” One of the more compassionate movies I’ve seen so far this year, yet every bit as brutal and disturbing as the trailer paints it to […]
The Sun Is Also a Star (2019)
“All it took was a single day.” Unrealistically romantic in an intentional way and fatalistic to a sharp fault, The Sun Is Also a Star gladly exists in the lofty […]
Her Smell (2019)
“You’re a mess.” The first 70 minutes of Her Smell are so physically draining and emotionally assaulting that the picture practically warrants a restraining order. We shouldn’t want to allow […]
Orange County (2002)
“You sent in the wrong transcript?!” What can go wrong will go wrong in Orange County, a film full of cliches and stale drama and just enough laughs to circle back […]
