Knives Out (2019)
“I suspect foul play.” Inside this sprawling, mischievous, hilariously macabre murder mystery is a film that’s so unafraid to sprinkle in a few necessary dashes of the socioeconomic disparity prevalent […]
Tag Archives: Drama
Marriage Story (2019)
“I like to begin with a note of positivity.” Marriage Story – a drama chock-full of the kind of comedy born from psychological unease and physical discomfort and emotional unrest […]
Last Christmas (2019)
“You’ve got to take care of your heart.” It’s hard to explain just how off everything about Last Christmas feels from the first scene to the last. It’s a comedy […]
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 […]
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 […]
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