A runtime so short and yet so agonizingly long at the same time; not even a Billy Joel tune from his prime days could save this. Everyone is given more time to shine than Oliver himself, but instead of being concerned with showing pathos - each character is just a gimmick or (annoying) comic relief. Oliver himself has nothing to him and the plot is just on fast forward, giving nothing to any of these characters.
This is just a…
It is a vast improvement over the previous adaptation of the work, righting all the wrongs that were either a product of the times or of poor direction, and nearly every single change to the story added to the film not only worked - but added so much more complexity to the film. The leads were finally convincing as a couple and I could actually buy the fact they would fall in love in a single night - something I…
A tragic story about a struggling musician in the 1960s. It's raw and powerful, but also sends quite the depressing message of struggling for our art.
We follow Llewyn Davis, a struggling artist who has a lot of talent in him, as he tries to make it through an opportunity to follow his dream. However, he starts from the bottom. He doesn't have a dime to his name, nor does he have a home; what he does have though is…
I think this woke up something inside of me. I forgot how fun movies can actually be; not all of them have to have a message, or tell a universal truth. When was the last time I watched a fun movie, a movie that existed just for everyone to have a good, fun light hearted joy ride for 2 hours? The cynic in me was ready to lambast this film, but I didn't have it in me. I was having…
