Four features into his career and John Carney still finds new ways to show the power of music. There's a scene in this involving Flora mostly looking at the back of a laptop screen that has the potential to be my moment of the year, it shook me so. Unfortunately, for the first time that I can recall, his fairy tale can't quite overcome the reality of the world around it. For every moment that made me believe a transatlantic…
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Barbie 2023
I usually see new movies immediately after leaving work at 3 on Thursdays, which in this case meant that I wasn't able to wear just the gnarliest, most disgusting death metal band shirt in my closet. Oh, well.
It doesn't quite stick all of the emotional beats, but if I see a funnier movie this year I'll consider myself very fortunate. The only way I could've enjoyed Ryan Gosling more is if they'd found a way to work in his…
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000
This was a rewatch as homework for a ThinkChristian Movie Club discussion, so I watched this with a pretty specific set of criteria to search for in mind.
Knowing the Coens' often dark sense of humor, I'm left wondering if the grace that these three people find throughout the movie is in some way the deepest and most cynical joke of all. Sure, my Christian world view views it as a sign of God's hand that everything works out for…
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