Heart-breaking and heart-mending perfection.
Linklater's Before trilogy is the greatest ever committed to film. The way that they (presumably!) represent how love and people change is emotional awareness and beauty on another level. In many ways, this was the most beautiful of the three, because without this, it was incomplete. I know there are those who say that it would have been better just with the first, but I disagree - it is precisely that there are the second two,…
I am utterly speechless. Prisoners floored me in ways I never expected.
I have never been so completely engrossed in a movie as this, rooting for the unbelievably well crafted mystery to be solved, feeling genuine hatred for the people responsible, backing someone in doing something I never thought I would, screaming at the characters to will them to do what I wanted. The way this movie was executed was literally flawless, how the mystery unfolds, I cannot believe how…
Wow.
The music sequences in the juke t - wow.
The horror sequences - wow.
I just love the sheer confidence dripping off this thing. This is the kind of auteur original project that needs to be funded. Directed with style and power by Coogler, a brilliant mix of genres and themes. Beautiful cinematography and a barnstorming score, with terrific performances from Jordan, Mosaku, Caton, O'Connell and my MVP, Delroy goddamn Lindo.
