All About My Mother is a tender, comionate look at a group of disparate women, from aging starlets to repressed nuns, who find companionship and community outside the ruins of a nuclear family. I want to rewatch the film immediately because it's packed to the brim with allusions to everything from Douglas Sirk to Truman Capote. Cecelia Roth gives one of the best performances I've seen in an Almodóvar film somehow outshining Penelope Cruz. If this was made today, the…
"Dying slowly in America, after all, can be a very expensive proposition"
It's so cool that the Langley-NOC list heist isn't even the best scene in this film.
The confrontation with Kitteridge at the cafe is immaculate filmmaking. Koepp's dialogue, Cruise's face as he realizes what's going down, the Dutch angles, Redlight-Greenlight. Everything just works perfectly. I also have to shoutout Jim and Ethan's reunion where the latter is describing the fake version of events in dialogue but we're shown…
“Theory will only take you so far”
The most ingenious aspect of Oppenheimer is the film’s structure. For the first two hours, the glimpses of Oppenheimer’s security hearing are overshadowed by a series of 20-30 second scenes, like split uranium atoms, create the propulsive energy for the successful explosion at Los Alamos.
But Oppenheimer barely gets to savor his triumph before the film scratches to a halt. The brilliant physicist finds himself discarded by the government, bound by reputation to…
"Whose land is this, Henry?"
"My land...my land"
Killers Of The Flower Moon is an aching, somber epic about a blood-stained American dream born out of treachery, murder & the dispossession of Native Americans. In Mollie & Ernest's cursed love, we see genocidal white supremacy in all its paternalism, greed, & dehumanization. Lily Gladstone's steely-determination to survive in the face of extermination made me tear up multiple times. But it's the ending completely wrecked me. I can't think of another movie where the…
