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The Father (2020): Mental Aging Horrors Clout
The Father is the most passively complex film of the past year. Playing carefully with the nature of location and memory, director Zeller takes us into the wilds of dementia. Seeing how so much of the...
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021): Black Panther Snyder Cut
Judas and the Black Messiah has one of the best scripts of 2020. But, many will not understand why for years to come. In a year where the mechanics of oppression are being studied in our streets and o...
Promising Young Woman (2020): Jezebel Fan-Fic Long Form Winner
Promising Young Woman is the perfect film that exists in the minds of imperfect people trying to make sense of the world. Many detractors are quick to slap them with the SJW brush, but I think it goes...
Minari (2020) [Best of 2020 Movie Review]
Minari was my favorite film of 2020. Over the last few months, there was a ton of other films that came close. But, there is something to this little drama that could that spoke to me. While everyone ...
Sound of Metal (2020): Deaf Boy Temptation
Sound of Metal is all about curing your greatest tragedy at the cost of a community. When we first meet Riz Ahmed and Olivia Cooke’s characters, it’s easy to get distracted by their music....
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020): Oscar Embarrassment
The Trial of the Chicago 7 is further proof that we should bury Sorkin next to Chayefsky until we get The Social Network II. Younger people will cringe at elements of this film, while boomers will str...
Average Joe (2021) [Movie review]
Average Joe is yet another movie about superheroes. While some are quick to call superhero fiction as capeshit, I find pleasures hidden in the muck. What Average Joe does isn’t reinventing the w...
Mank (2020) [Terribly Indulgent Movies That Matter review]
Mank is Walk Hard for the TCM crowd. While that might be a dismissive Film Twitter take, it’s not that far off. But, why? I’ll go one better. Why does it not matter? Hollywood is in love w...
The Croods: A New Age (2020) [Film Review]
The prehistoric family the Croods are challenged by a rival family the Bettermans, who claim to be better and more evolved.
Marriage Story [Top 25 of 2019 #7]
Upper class white people get divorced, fawn over each other, then employ Laura Dern.