Country Luxembourg
Every so often a short film comes along that is so complete, so beautifully judged and so quietly devastating that it puts most features to shame, and I Will Be Alright is one of them. Cyrus Neshvad, Oscar nominated for his short The Red Suitcase, has made something close to
Rating: 4.5★
Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple (1985) arrives in his filmography as something of a pivot point, sandwiched between the rollicking adventure of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom the previous year and the science-fiction spectacle that bookended much of his early career. Based on Alice Walker&
Country United States Of America
The American Dream isn't dead. It just reanimated, shuffled through the automatic doors, and made itself at home in the nearest shopping mall. That image, a horde of the undead mindlessly drifting between shop fronts, escalators, and fountain displays, is so perfectly, savagely funny that it almost hurts.
Rating: 4.5★
Some of the best stories are the ones you can scarcely believe are true, and Pride is built on a beauty. In the summer of 1984, a small group of gay and lesbian activists in London looked at the striking miners being ground down by Margaret Thatcher's government,
Rating: 4.5★
A man finds oil, drills it, and gets rich. That is genuinely it. On paper, the plot of Paul Thomas Anderson's epic is staggeringly simple, and yet what he does with that bare-bones premise is something remarkable. This is a towering, standalone classic of modern cinema, and
Rating: 4.5★
I'll hold my hands up: I was dead wrong, and I'm not too proud to admit it. For years, I actively avoided The Perks of Being a Wallflower. It had acquired this rather tiresome reputation as a mandatory watch for "basic cinephiles," and, to
Rating: 4.5★
I am rarely one to sing the praises of the modern superhero industrial complex. You probably know this about me by now. Outside of the original X-Men trilogy and The Dark Knight, I've almost never handed out a score higher than average to a cape-and-cowl
Rating: 4.5★
Sometimes going in completely blind is the best thing you can do for yourself. I had a poster in my head: Julia Roberts, a baby, what looked like a quiet family drama. Maybe a character study. Something gentle. What I actually got was a fiercely compelling, true-life legal thriller
Rating: 4.5★
I genuinely paused the screen multiple times just to stare at a single frame. Not to grab a snack, not because something was confusing, but because Katsuhiro Otomo's Neo-Tokyo is so meticulously, breathtakingly rendered that to simply let it play felt almost disrespectful. That's the
Rating: 4.5★
The Omaha Beach sequence. Twenty-seven minutes of controlled chaos that still has the power to leave you genuinely shaking. I went back to Saving Private Ryan recently to see whether it held up after all this time, and the honest answer is: almost entirely, yes. From the moment that
Rating: 4.5★
For years, I've been saying that Oscar Isaac is this generation's Al Pacino. After sitting through Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme, I'm ready to eat those words whole and hand that mantle straight to Timothée Chalamet. This is, and I don't
Rating: 4.5★
Some films you watch for yourself. Some films you watch with your kids, and you end up rediscovering something you didn't even know you'd lost. Sitting down with the little ones to watch James Frawley's The Muppet Movie, I wasn't expecting to
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