Glenn has written 49 reviews for films rated .
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What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? 2021
"Because everything happened the way it had to happen." Unlike anything I've seen, yet lovingly indebted to rhythms/grace notes of silent cinema, city symphony, rom com, and Manoel de Oliveira. Pure kindness in the face of a brutal world. The best film of the last 3-4 years.
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In Front of Your Face 2021
A film about dying and forgiving and flirting and getting drunk and making promises you can't keep and then waking up and realizing it was always going to be disappointing. Grace is something that can always be more easily achieved when inebriated, but that doesn't mean it's not there.
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Philadelphia 1993
I don't think we've even begun to realize how radical this movie is, how different it is, how hopeful it is, its capacity for love and understanding. It feels like it was made 50 years ago, and yet all those moments of connection and growth couldn't be more immediate. God I miss Jonathan Demme.
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003
One of the great modern studio films, if not the greatest. Scale like you've never seen, maps and strategy and calculations not to show off but to survive. Splintering wood and punctured lungs residing next to drinking sessions and and naturalist curiosity. Grand, epic Hollywood filmmaking that just doesn't exist anymore thanks to the digitization of blockbusters and hollowing out of adventure stories. The final battle only takes up about 5 mins of screen time, but the intensity and stakes…
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Flags of Our Fathers 2006
In 50 years no one will remember all of the Marvel movies, but they'll remember this one.
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The Human Pyramid 1961
Absolutely the greatest film ever about the cluelessness of white women, other than CLUELESS of course. But seriously, an all-timer.
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Song to Song 2017
All love stories come to an end. Terrence Malick has spent his entire career surveying the weight of this inevitability, creating deeply felt films about forlorn couples tumbling toward heartbreak at the speed of a racing pulse. So much beauty exists in the slow breakdown of emotions that the camera rarely stops surveying for new details. Reconciling this formal vitality with deeply felt melancholy is an essential part of experiencing the filmmaker’s kinetic world-view.
Song to Song, Malick’s monumentally moving…