The Birth of a Nation (2016)
“You listen to him and you might just make it into heaven.” Courage. Wisdom. Vision. These are the traits a young Nat Turner is told he possesses long before serving […]
Tag Archives: Drama
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
“This isn’t even the fun part.” Like so many YA fantasies being brought to the screen of late, Miss Peregrines’s Home for Peculiar Children has too much scope to be understood in […]
The Hollars (2016)
“Can we cut the s*** here, for a second?” People do not experience emotions the way they are portrayed and supposedly felt in The Hollars, one of the year’s biggest disappointments and […]
Deepwater Horizon (2016)
“Never hurts to run a test.” Deepwater Horizon starts with a bang. Not literally – plenty of those are saved for later. The screen is black as we listen to real […]
Sing Street (2016)
“You can never do anything by half.” Sing Street is a movie for music fans, for lovers of defiant romance, and for the displaced teens lining the walls of middle schools the […]
Hell or High Water (2016)
“You got some spunk left in you.” The term dime novel is often used in a negative context to describe indulgent, hurried material. Hell or High Water looks that way on the […]
Morris from America (2016)
“I just don’t have anything to prove to these people.” The biggest issue with the “fish out of water” framing device is that the stories generally feel off and combative, focusing […]
Sully (2016)
“You can accomplish anything if you’re never in a hurry.” I genuinely fear for the future of biopic cinema, especially when they’re now made so soon after the actual incident that […]
The Light Between Oceans (2016)
“We’re not doing anything wrong.” One of The Light Between Ocean’s most important shots lasts so briefly that you’d miss it if you blinked. Michael Fassbender, as dedicated and doggedly motivated as ever, […]
Don’t Think Twice (2016)
“The thing about an easy sell is that it has to be easy to sell.” I haven’t come across a comedy in 2016 that’s been better than Don’t Think Twice, for reasons […]
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