It’s cute, but I struggle to pinpoint anything special about it. I really liked the casting. Haley Lu Richardson and Ben Hardy do have chemistry, but I was more interested in their characters’ respective struggles within their own families. She being a product of divorce and still holding onto anger, sadness, and disappointment on the eve of her father’s second marriage. He being terrified of the fact that his ailing mother will soon die due to lung cancer and not…
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After Yang 2021
Leave it to Kogonada to tell a story about a cyborg that stopped working suddenly to underscore what it might mean to be human, to be able to care, to love, and to go on when important parts of us are shed amongst the wind.
This film is a gentle reminder that we all come with expiration dates. I, like Yang, the “techno-sapien” of interest, do not fear death or even that there could be nothing afterwards. To die need…
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Zodiac 2007
A deliberate sidestepping of overt action is the strategy director David Fincher employs in “Zodiac,” a true crime thriller surrounding the hunt for the Zodiac killer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area from 1969 to 1971. Highly intelligent, meticulous, and efficient, at times the picture embodies the texture of a documentary in the way it dares to break away from the expected plot and dramatic parabola. What matters is information, how it is presented, and what conclusions, if any,…
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Call Me by Your Name 2017
To tell a love story without the expected words, phrases, and gestures meant to communicate specific thoughts, feelings, and private longings is particularly challenging to pull off, awkward and off-putting when executed even with the slightest hint of self-consciousness, but Luca Guadagnino’s surprisingly disarming “Call Me by Your Name,” based on the novel by André Aciman, makes it look like most graceful dance, so natural, delicate, and free of chains that prevent so many coming-of-age pictures from reaching their maximum…
