F1: The Movie
Sure, he’s handsome, but can he drive? You bet. His name is Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt), and he can drop behind the wheel of a Formula One racecar, take it for a spin and tell you exactly what’s wrong with … Continue reading F1: The Movie
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NICKEL BOYS
Destined to be the most talked about movie at the 47th Denver Film Festival—if not the 2024 award season—Nickel Boys is a textbook example of how the telling of a story can sometimes be more significant than the story itself. … Continue reading NICKEL BOYS
SHE SAID
It opens with a young woman walking her dog along the shore. There she stumbles upon a group of men in 18th-century British red coats unloading a clipper ship. It’s the 1990s: What in the world is going on here? … Continue reading SHE SAID
BLONDE
She was born Norma Jean Baker in 1926, but she died Marilyn Monroe in 1962. Between those two dates and names lived one of the 20th century’s most enduring icons—a not-unusual collection of complications and contradictions exacerbated all the more … Continue reading BLONDE
MINARI
The Yi family has come to Arkansas. Immigrants from Korea by way of California, they’ve relocated in hopes of discovering the American Dream. What exactly that dream will look like is still a mystery to everyone but father Jacob (Steven … Continue reading MINARI
KAJILLIONAIRE
Old Dolio (Evan Rachel Wood) is not exactly the image of your typical con artist. Nor is her name: Her parents named her after a homeless man who won the lottery hoping he would feel so honored, he would bequeath … Continue reading KAJILLIONAIRE
IRRESISTIBLE
Gary Zimmer (Steve Carell) is a typical liberal elite, the kind they grow in labs somewhere along the coast. He dresses well enough to look like he has taste, works at a job that makes him enough money to look … Continue reading IRRESISTIBLE
THE TREE OF LIFE
Someday we’ll fall down and weep, and we’ll understand it all. All things. —Mr. O’Brien, The Tree of Life For two weeks every May, the world of cinema turns to the beaches of Southern France as the Cannes Film Festival … Continue reading THE TREE OF LIFE
AD ASTRA
Ad Astra, from filmmaker par excellence James Gray, opens with a shot of the cosmos, vast and terrifying. As the camera pans across the twinkling dots of a thousand suns, a lens flare catches the frame and briefly illuminates the … Continue reading AD ASTRA
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