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 […]
Tag Archives: Drama
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 […]
Doctor Sleep (2019)
“They come back.” At its core, Doctor Sleep takes Stephen King’s novel (which I admittedly have not read) and flips the pages into a supernatural horror story built for the […]
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 […]
Black and Blue (2019)
“Either you’re one of us or you’re one of them.” Most movies of this type – seedy, procedural, B-movie movie crime dramas – tend to start strong and continue to […]
Gemini Man (2019)
“It was like I was seeing a ghost.” Ten months into the calendar year and I’m not quite sure that I’ve had a more disappointing time at the cinema than […]
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
“Give up Pinkman.” Television series don’t get much better than Breaking Bad. It is, from start to finish, one of the very best of its kind. Few false notes can be […]
Joker (2019)
“For my whole life, I didn’t know if I really even existed.” Joker descends on clown for hire Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) painting his face in a lit makeup mirror. […]
Ad Astra (2019)
“I must accept the fact I never really knew you. Nor am I you.” It’s rather remarkable that, in a time littered with small budget dramas and endless high-top tent […]
Hustlers (2019)
“We can’t dance forever.” With exceptions few and far between, the American Dream’s heyday hopes of a life lived in suburbia with a white-picket fence have radically changed this side […]
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