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 […]
Tag Archives: Drama
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. […]
Person to Person (2017)
“It’s big and it’s not big, depending on how you see it.” Brief, bustling, and as bewildering as it is understated, Person to Person serves as a delightful appetizer of a film […]
Dunkirk (2017)
“If we go there we’ll die.” Christopher Nolan seems to be a director and a storyteller obsessed by the passage, the overall meaning, and the possibility of exploring different pieces […]
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
“I did not start this war.” As overtly and obviously religious in tone as it is visually inspired by the Fall of the Roman Empire, War for the Planet of the […]
The Beguiled (2017)
“Are you frightened?” The Beguiled is not the sort of film where you should ever try to dwell upon any one thing it tries to be about. It’s too sprawling, […]
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