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Were nearing the end of another year, which means movie season is truly kicking into gear.
Arctic
Enjoyable and excruciating.
Thats all we know about him and all we really need to its what hedoesandkeeps doingthat defines him.
The movie really takes your mind off your own troubles.D.E.
The drive toward revenge kills the characters long before anyone dies.
It kills their souls.D.E.
The physical, temporal, and emotional geography is very confusing, but the film is still potent.
Noes desire to shock is still ever-present, and all trigger warnings still apply.
In its mundane way,Dianeshows you glimmers of the sublime.D.E.
Why would Bannon let Klayman be a fly on his wall or in his ointment?
He has faith in his message.
He already has a solid enough minority thats immoveable.
Klayman doesnt have to editorialize to make the point that Bannon is one of the most dangerous people alive.D.E.
Its like a rush of acrid air from a tomb.D.E.
The resulting album,Amazing Grace, was one of themost acclaimed of her career.
But now its here, and it is transcendent.
Resplendent in her caftans but otherwise humble, Franklin gives off no diva or rock-star airs.
So is her audience, shouting their support, cheering her along, dancing in the aisles.
And so are we.
The movie itself feels like a church service, and its enough to make you get religion.
And its surprisingly light on its feet.
Maybe thats why the film had been a commercial bust.
Dern is a great detective actress she externalizes thought.D.E.
At times the film seems too distanced, but its never obvious or banal.
Hogg convinces you that incoherence is the only honest way to tell a story with any emotional complexity.D.E.
Actor Jimmie Fails and director Joe Talbots semi-autobiographical debut is a gorgeously wrought love letter to the city.
Visually, the film is brimming with painterly tableaus of black life.
Home is where our most deep-seated wounds lie.
But the blurriness is unnerving, the finale both horrific and strangely beautiful.
What keeps you entranced is De Palmas pacing.
Has there ever been a finale simultaneously so euphoric and heartbreaking?
Crawl
Crawlis a great example of a simple story exceedingly well-told.
Mozaffari dramatizes the illusory nature of control.
You come away from marveling not at their strength but at their nonending struggle against weakness.
Its not propaganda but a mothers plea to bear witness.
But you still end up especially when he performs in his thrall.
This is the first Netflix film released under Barack and Michelle Obamas Higher Ground banner.
Too bad you cant see it in a theater.D.E.
Hustlers
Hustlersis simply magical.
Lorene Scafarias writing is endlessly quotable, with lines like Drain the clock, not the cock!
rooting themselves in your memory.
But Jennifer Lopez is the films towering crown jewel.
Her leonine grace and cunning delivery reveal new grooves in her character Romanas vibrant, multifaceted persona.
The cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytemas frames are spare, evoking the vast distance between souls.
(I kid!)
Screenwriter Scott Z. Burnss stroke of brilliance is in making the villains of the story our loquacious hosts.
His broad agitprop comedy is labored in parts but is, as a whole, sensationally valuable.D.E.
Who are the real parasites?
The poor who attach themselves to the rich or the rich who suck the marrow of the poor?
Or is the system itself the parasite, drawing its energy from the turbulent interaction between rich and poor?
The central metaphor eats into the mind.D.E.
An early film, now regarded as a classic, is given a restoration and screening.
A stray composition about a long-lost boyfriend becomes a monologue that then prompts a remarkable and tender reunion.
He hopes never to see Israel again, refusing even to speak Hebrew anymore.
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