Posts Tagged ‘Jennifer Jason Leigh’
Film Review – The Woman in the Window
Here is a movie that is so blatantly artificial that it’s almost admirable. The Woman in the Window (2021) has such a synthetic feel to its execution that its style becomes the main draw. If we delve too deeply into story and character, it falls apart. The…
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Film Review – Possessor
Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor (2020) plays like a nightmare. There is a story here, and from a distance it contains elements that look familiar. But with Cronenberg’s writing and direction, it’s constructed with a dark and twisted vision. It’s a sci-fi/horror film that aims not to…
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Film Review – Greta
Greta (2018) is a nasty bit of fun. Directed and co-written by Neil Jordan (with Ray Wright) this is the story of a young woman named Frances (Chloë Grace Moretz) who – almost by accident – befriends an older woman named Greta (Isabelle Huppert). But…
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Film Review – White Boy Rick
White Boy Rick (2018) has the look and feel of a film that has something interesting to say. But once we dig beneath the surface – beneath the believable aesthetics and convincing performances – we find an empty center. I’m sure the writers (Andy Weiss,…
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Film Review – Annihilation
The craziest and weirdest film so far of 2018 is Annihilation. The trailer gave off major Arrival vibes, but as the end credits roll, it is a film that will have the audience in major debates about what it is they just saw.
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Film Review – Morgan
Morgan makes no illusions as to what it is. The initial teaser trailer made it look original, intriguing, and it had an air of mystery. Cue the following trailers, and the target audience may have already figured the whole film out prior to minute one.
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Film Review – Anomalisa
Idiosyncratic. That is the word that leaps to mind. It might seem like a cop out as a description. It feels a bit like calling something “Unique” when you don’t know what to make of something. But it is the first word that leaps to…
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Top 15 Films of 2015 – Allen’s Picks
I know what people say: “Lists of anything are dumb. How can you take something as subjective as movies and rank them in order?” Well, that’s kind of the beauty of it: no one list is definitive. If anything, putting out one’s favorite films only reveals…
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