Your Name (2017)
“Dreams fade away after you wake up.” I’d be remiss to critique a film as complex, perplexing, and beautiful as Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name without first stating that my knowledge of Anime […]
Tag Archives: Drama
It (2017)
“Ain’t nothing like a little fear to make a paper man crumble.” What I think the latest iteration of It accentuates and absolutely nails as a cinematic version (and, I can only […]
Wind River (2017)
“Guns always loaded, even if it ain’t.” As Taylor Sheridan’s third produced script – and his directorial debut to boot – Wind River completes the virtuoso writer’s three-piece reinvention of the modern […]
Ingrid Goes West (2017)
“I just prefer to keep certain parts of my life private.” Comedies can be a lot of things all at once, and when done well, are able to mix the […]
Good Time (2017)
“This place where you are now can be a lot of fun if you let it. You’re going to have a good time.” Not since last year’s incredibly moving and […]
Brigsby Bear (2017)
“We have dreams and imaginations to help us escape.” As a child – and now as a grown man – an unhealthy amount of my leisure life has looked like […]
Detroit (2017)
“I’m as real as real can get.” Police brutality has long been a touchy subject in cinema and culture. How do you condemn the worst without offending the rest of […]
Logan Lucky (2017)
“You Logan’s must be as simple-minded as people say.” It makes sense that I haven’t come across another film quite like Logan Lucky since I first saw Ocean’s 11. That film, the magnum […]
The Glass Castle (2017)
“Talking is not trying.” Roughly halfway through Jeannette Walls’ subdued, resilient memoir, the family drives their beat-up Oldsmobile lemon through Oklahoma to mining country in Welch, West Virginia. While the […]
A Ghost Story (2017)
“Is there something there?” Contrary to the celebratory nature of work promotions and Olympic podium ceremonies and battlefield war cries, life isn’t a game any one us ever actually wins. […]
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