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 […]
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
“There is always something you can do with the mad that you feel.” Therapeutic, life-affirming, and deeply religious without ever relying on preaching, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is […]
Toy Story 4 (2019)
“I don’t have anything else.” Back in 2010, Toy Story 3 proved that the third time really is the charm. It was an animated delight, full of earnest and nostalgia, emotional […]
The Post (2017)
“Is anybody tired of reading the news instead of reporting it?” Lifting off on the gusting winds of multiple cultural zeitgeists – of the past and of the immediate present […]
The Circle (2017)
“Do you think you do better or worse when you are being watched?” Not all stories require or need happy endings. Memories of messages seem to linger longer when drenched […]
Inferno (2016)
“Humanity is the disease. Inferno is the cure.” It’s one thing for a big film to be fueled by big spending and another thing altogether if its only intention is […]
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 […]
Bridge of Spies (2015)
“Sometimes people think wrong. People are people.” Bridge of Spies is, by most measures, a solid piece of awards season bait. Classically made, told, performed. It’s a good movie, and one […]
Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
“Life is a harsh sentence to lay down for yourself.” We’re all storytellers. Living grants us that gift. But some people don’t choose to write as often, and instead relent […]
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