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There’s a lot to process. I appreciate Anderson tackling some of the big things—it’s almost ridiculously ambitious, even. Trying to capture just about everything—life, God, relationships, community,...

Work in progress.

Full River Red Full Time Marlowe Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One Oppenheimer John Wick: Chapter 4 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Murder Mystery 2...

Government involvement in the production ensures this feels like propaganda for much of the runtime, especially the first half, a mostly stolid collection of vignettes that should have been more exciting...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/07/the-midyear-reckonings-french-revolution/

The Midyear Reckoning’s French Revolution: France replaces Hollywood as our go-to cinema.

Now that France is in turmoil,...

Dead for a Dollar Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood Thirteen Lives RRR Navalny The Fabelmans Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special Top Gun: Maverick The Northman Doctor Strange in the Multiverse...

Say what you will, but the part where John Turturro invents baseball, and he’s clearly making it up as they go in order to favor himself—“if you throw outside the strike zone 4 times, I, uh, get...

This is good. More than a good telling of the rescue, there is some thematic stuff going on in this that impressed me.

As usual, Ron Howard is so straightforward that you can miss it. But he sometimes...

Starts slow but builds up flavors until you feel you’re watching a pretty wonderful variety show. Even the songs get better over time. Kathryn Grayson may not be the best actress but she’s good...

An exploration of losing one’s life in order to find it. In its quiet, intentional pacing, it seemed to want to mimic the effect of the rituals and Grand Silence that bring meaning to a nun’s daily...

"Sorry I'm late...”

“That's okay, time doesn't exist."

He didn’t know what he was doin’.

Whacky antics abound!

My son’s really into the Our Gang shorts from this era so it was fun to see Dickie Moore play a small role.

Watched on Saturday May 21, 2022.

The whole movie is something of a marvel. But the tightness and near wordlessness of the final climactic one-two punch is textbook dramatic storytelling efficiency. I’m tempted to call it pure cinema....

Four Sons shows Ford having a great time doing his version of Murnau, but with his favorite themes showing through.

I’m interested in Ford’s portrayal of a happy, provincial, idyllic Europe, contrasted...

You give Ford a silly story narrated by a horse and he will not turn in a dud. I’m learning he can practically do no wrong. It’s shot brilliantly and ends up being chalk full of classic archetypal...

Begins with a Chinese immigrant family running a laundromat as they face an IRS audit (it’s a Tax Day movie!) and family troubles.

Then, uh, some stuff happens, it goes insane, then basically tries...

I’m a recent convert to Snyder, but now that I’ve seen the light, I believe he fills a unique and necessary spot in our current film culture with his emphasis on mythological and archetypical storytelling...

Miller's Crossing No Country for Old Men Hail, Caesar! O Brother, Where Art Thou? Raising Arizona True Grit Burn After Reading Fargo The Ballad of Buster Scruggs The Big Lebowski...

As an espionage film, Munich is perhaps too contemplative for its own good. It’s over long, like Spielberg’s other films with screenwriter Tony Kushner. And while Eric Bana acts phenomenally here,...