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The Quiet Girl – 8.5
A little gem. A quiet movie, very Irish, about a young girl and some adults. We come to know her, and love her, and I wouldn’t mind spending more time with her. If the ending is heartbreaking, even tragic, that’s Ireland for you.
Oscar Nominees
Having finally seen Women Talking I can now comment on the full slate of Oscar nominations for Best Picture, as well as many of the subcategories. Fortunately, my favorite English-language movie of the year, The Banshees of Inisherin, is also the leading Oscar nominee, with nods for Director, Actor, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress as well as […]
Women Talking – 5
With cinematography by Walker Evans, dialogue by Kahlil Gibran and star turns by Ben Whishaw as Anthony Perkins and Rooney Mara as the non-Virgin Mary, this film had serious and artsy engraved on every tableau. Unfortunately, it just didn’t connect with me. I couldn’t tell if it was a fable, a parable, a women’s dream, […]
Black Panther II: Wakanda Forever – 5
For an action movie directed at the short-attention-span generation, this was one slow film. Every scene between fights dragged on; as for the predictable fights, they were without visceral emotion and internal logic, as was the rest of the film. Deep looks of concern and longing mainly recalled their comic book source. The ending was […]
Saint Omer – 7
A simply shot, mesmerizing courtroom drama, semi-opaque as a drama but evocative of ideas. Of maternity, of personal responsibility, of colonialism, of man and woman, of race, more of race, of journalistic objectivity. From our viewpoint, it is also curious to observe and try to understand the French criminal justice system (with six seasons of Spiral […]