The Little Things (2021)
“Who says that bad guys don’t return to the scene of the crime?” Tacit and thrilling. Tactical and a bit too taut. The Little Things is a modestly enjoyable murder […]
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Palmer (2021)
“You just gotta get yourself back out there.” There were a few moving moments and flourishes the first time I sat through the sensitive yet seriously overwrought Palmer, and I […]
i’m thinking of ending things (2020)
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions. Their lives a mimicry. Their passions a quotation.” The wind’s chiming as I type these words. I hear the […]
Promising Young Woman (2020)
“You know, they put themselves in danger… girls like that.” Somewhat flawed in its messaging yet more tantalizing than just about any film to be born from the laborious 2020, Promising […]
Sound of Metal (2020)
“The hearing that you have lost is not coming back.” Guitar static lingers and anticipation awaits in the opening sequence of Sound of Metal, quite possibly the best and most […]
Sylvie’s Love (2020)
“You’re not ordinary to me.” Sylvie’s Love feels like the kind of rare, finely aged, backroom bottle you’d have to ask a sommelier to bring to the table instead of […]
Love Actually (2003)
“Love is everywhere.” I find it nearly to impossible to not swoon over the sentimental beginning of Love Actually. Released at the start of 2003’s cozy holiday season, the film […]
Uncle Frank (2020)
“You gonna be the person you decide to be, or are you gonna be the person everyone else tells you you are?” He sits in the corner reading and thinking. […]
Driveways (2020)
“Why didn’t we see her?” Heartfelt, present, incredibly personal. Driveways is the kind of movie that softly kneads its way into your soul, almost like a parent massaging Vicks salve onto […]
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
“It’s where my people come from.” A few years back I literally bought into the hype of J.D. Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy. Despite shelling out the money and having the […]
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