Wednesday, December 4th, 2019 at 11:44am
Given how easily this could have been a heavy-handed awards-seeking lecture, the fact that @melinamatsoukas has turned it into a borderline art film, sort of just by her strength of will, is something of an Oscar-season miracle. #QueenAndSlim
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019 at 1:28pm
Wanna know whodunnit? It's always the person you least expect. Or maybe the twist is, it's the most obvious person? Or maybe it just ends up being a movie about a bunch of well-dressed chefs. #KnivesOut
@MarriageStory premieres this week on Netflix, documenting the psychological torment that befalls a couple as their marriage disintegrates & who could pass up such a light topic. Not us.
Monday, December 2nd, 2019 at 1:30pm
December Movie Preview: We're full steam into Oscar season and you know what that means - digitized, ballet-dancing, musical cats.
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Given how easily this could have been a heavy-handed awards-seeking lecture, the fact that the director, Melina Matsoukas, has turned it into a borderline art film, sort of just by her strength of will, is something of an Oscar-season miracle.
A phenomenal directorial debut, though Queen & Slim's artistry and social urgency are both undercut by some questionable storytelling. Read the review!
Wanna know whodunnit? It's always the person you least expect. Or maybe the twist is, it's the most obvious person? Or maybe it just ends up being a movie about a bunch of well-dressed chefs.
Just in time for the holidays, Noah Baumbach’s - Marriage Story premieres this weekend on Netflix, documenting in by-all-accounts harrowing detail the psychological torment that befalls a couple as their marriage disintegrates.(Keeping it light, eh?)
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Just in time for the holidays, Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story premieres this weekend on Netflix, documenting in by-all-accounts harrowing detail the psychological torment that befalls a couple as their marriage disintegrates. To celebrate, Rob and Carrie have finally decided we’re going to look ...
And so this cumbersome, erratic movie year comes to a close. 2019 has had its share of unassailable masterworks, but it’s also had more than its share of soul-crushing mediocrity. And the last month looks to have more of both, though in the case of one particular motion picture with digital fur te...