Spencer (2021)
“I have absolutely no idea where I am.” Cool, calm, collected. We first see Diana, Princess of Wales (Kristen Stewart, delivering one of the best performances of her still youthful […]
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The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
“This is a political trial.” Intermittently resonant and admittedly timely, there remains a genuine hollowness to The Trial of the Chicago 7 that I cannot shake. The film is a […]
Greyhound (2020)
“This is what we trained for.” Greyhound is an almost refreshingly simple at home movie experience, heralding the long forgotten everyman and championing cinema’s most fundamental storytelling techniques throughout its […]
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 […]
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 […]
First Man (2018)
“We need to fail down here so we don’t fail up there.” You don’t fall in love with a picture like First Man. It’s a cold, hostile, largely introspective endeavor, the […]
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
“That’s quite a mouthful.” Everything about The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society is, incontestably, sorely overlong. The title itself is an abomination. Can you imagine if this had played […]
The 15:17 to Paris (2018)
“My Father says everyone has a story and it’s our duty to tell it.” Back in my scathing review of 2015’s American Sniper – which is, at least in my opinion, one […]
12 Strong (2018)
“I read people for a living and I can’t get a beat on this guy.” Despite the importance that the title places on the number of men in this true […]
Darkest Hour (2017)
“Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.” An intrepid performance, great production value, good direction, witty writing. Darkest Hour carefully checks off the most important characteristics necessary to earn a […]
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