A very strong start injected with another great, nearly wordless performance from Kaitlin Dever help to set this particular home invasion film apart from its predecessors. The absence of dialogue only feels like a gimmick fleetingly but mostly helps to convey the utter isolation our heroine feels when she realizes “no one will save you”. The backstory and the ending are *choices* and not necessarily good ones (personally, I don’t think we need to see what event led to her…
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An American Tail 1986
God, I miss Don Bluth animation. A cute relic of my childhood and a great kid-friendly look at the plight of immigrants. Also helps that the signature song between Fievel and his sister might be one of the most charming and adorable moments of the film.
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TÁR 2022
There’s no question that Todd Field is an incredibly smart filmmaker and that Cate Blanchett is a highly skilled thespian but this film is 158 minutes of pseudo-intellectual conversations that don’t amount to much more than very advanced thinking individuals sounding academically brilliant. And that’s all well and good - but so much of it went over my head that there were whole scenes I simply did not understand. When we reach the titular conductor’s downfall (an hour and a…
