The Way Back (2020)
“We all have our own cross to bear.” While watching The Way Back, a poignant film about pain played out and confronted through the game of basketball, I couldn’t help but […]
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The Lodge (2020)
“We can’t stay where we are.” Profound grief and emotional dissonance highlight the internalized horrors of The Lodge, a film where the scares and the terrors are of their own macabre, […]
The Photograph (2020)
“Sometimes good things take time to develop.” Love stories need heart and heat to be convincing. The Photograph packs too little of either, and the end result is a frustrating […]
Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019)
“We find validation in very unhealthy places sometimes.” The first time we meet the titular Brittany (the brilliant and committed Jillian Bell), she’s once again late to her dead-end job […]
To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020)
“I promise not to break your heart.” To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You pretty much picks up right where Netflix’s smash hit predecessor left off. Lara Jean […]
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
“How do you know you can trust someone?” As a silly, sorrowful, satirical look at Nazi Germany through the lens of a radicalized Hitler Youth, Jojo Rabbit is the type […]
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, […]
Little Women (2019)
“You must not limit yourself.” Following the three times that I sat through Little Women over the course of two weeks, growing from an infatuated like to an absorbed and […]
1917 (2019)
“You think you can get there in time?” A technical marvel with its heart and soul sealed inside a locket for most of the duration, 1917 tells a familiar WWI […]
Just Mercy (2019)
“There’s always something that we can do.” After reading social justice warrior Bryan Stevenson’s account defending the wrongly accused in his book of the same name, I have to say […]
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