Tag: drama
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Asteroid City (2023)
I just saw Asteroid City by Wes Anderson and it was great. It took a little while to win me over and it’s possibly too mannered and esoteric to be widely beloved, but it tells a very simple story with a simple message at its core and is one of the sweetest, sunniest comedies to…
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Beau is Afraid (2023)
I just saw Beau is Afraid and it was overlong, intriguing, infuriating, and kind of unique. It’s possible to see it as a gigantic self-indulgence with little respect for the audience’s time and the same contempt for them that you see in a lot of contemporary art. And it is that. (There were walkouts in…
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Missing (2023)
I just saw Missing, the new “found footage” thriller, on a whim and it was pretty good. I was about to reflect that “found footage” is really an outdated term for this genre, since the footage isn’t really supposed to be “found” (a la “this was the campers’ video diary during their stay in the…
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Suzume (2022)
I just saw Suzume, an anime sub, and it might be my favourite film of the year. It’s funny, moving, suspenseful, visually splendid, and an almost perfect film experience. It was kind of shocking to see a fantasy film, set in the present day, with such genuine warmth and innocence about it. The fantasy films…
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A Rainy Day in New York (2019)
Set mostly over 24 hours, A Rainy Day in New York is a romantic comedy starring Timothee Chalamet as the evocatively named Gatsby Welles, a gambler and gadabout who takes his girlfriend, student journalist Ashleigh (Elle Fanning), for a romantic time in the Big Apple. Both are, however, sidetracked by misadventures and temptations as rain…
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2023)
I saw this one as part of my local cinema’s “screen unseen” programme, where they screen a mystery movie that hasn’t yet been given a wide release. I heard some groans from the audience when the title card appeared, though I don’t know what they were expecting and they seemed to enjoy it well enough.…
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Tar (2022)
I just saw Tar, finally, and it was a very artful character piece. It certainly scratched my itch to see something a little artier than what’s been on offer at the multiplex of late. It’s an at times glacially placed but never uninvolving character piece about a formidable but problematic artistic personality, renowned conductor Lydia…
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