(laughing nervously) What the fuck?
Reviews tagged ‘screening’ by zoë rose bryant Patron
2021
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The French Dispatch is the film equivalent of a Wes Anderson amusement park, captivating audiences with color, chaos, and countless curious characters. It’s also the most Wes Anderson movie that Wes Anderson has ever made, and whether that’s a good or bad thing depends on where you fall on the rest of his filmography. However, as a long-time irer, I ate it UP.
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The Summit of the Gods really surprised me. It's easily one of the most aesthetically engaging animated features of the year, and it has a shockingly compelling emotional core to boot as it offers fascinating insight into the lives of elite mountain climbers. Could very well crash the Oscar race when all is said and done.
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I surprisingly fell hard for Stillwater. Tom McCarthy’s return to “prestige” pictures is a complex yet continually compelling crime drama that defies basic description and shifts genres on a dime, handling every tonal transformation with effortless efficiency. Matt Damon is dynamite. One of the year’s must-see movies.
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Cyrano is such an openhearted ode to life and love, powered by a sensationally stirring soundtrack and persuasive performances. The pacing isn’t always perfect, but the dynamite Peter Dinklage and beguiling Haley Bennett suffuse the story with so much soulfulness that it’s impossible not to be swept off your feet. Not quite as polished a production as some of this year’s other major movie musicals (West Side Story still reigns supreme) but an enormously affecting affair nevertheless, and one I’d love to see earn awards attention for Dinklage and Bennett in particular.
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ing is a ravishing directorial debut for Rebecca Hall, who demonstrates a commanding control both behind the camera and on the page, surveying the complexities of our social identities and of human sexuality with both stark sobriety and scintillating sensuousness.
Tessa Thompson is tremendous, while the radiant Ruth Negga steals the show in a perfectly calibrated performance that should, if there is any justice in the world, earn her Oscar attention at the end of this awards season. Every scene…
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In Fran Kranz’s deeply felt directorial debut Mass, he puts forth a plea for forgiveness in these painfully fraught times and teaches us how to learn to live and love again after enduring unimaginable loss - a message delivered masterfully by his expertly cast ensemble.
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2021
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Mass broke my heart and put it back together again. Fran Kranz’s sensational script beautifully balances hurting with hope, while Birney, Dowd, Isaacs, and Plimpton give four of the finest performances of the year. In summary, nothing short of a stunner - and it will be an atrocity if the Academy overlooks these actors come March.
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2020
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Rebecca Hall delivers her best performance since 2016’s Christine in The Night House, a dark horror drama that is equal parts terrifying and thought-provoking, asserting itself as one of the most unpredictable additions to the genre in years.
In any other film, Hall’s audacious and artistically varied acting would warrant awards recognition, resembling recent riveting work from Toni Collette, Lupita Nyong’o, and Elisabeth Moss in how it transcends genre trappings.
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Thanks to Janicza Bravo’s daring direction and peerless performances from Taylour Paige and Riley Keough, Zola is the defining dark comedy of the digital age.
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