This instilled itself at an early age in me as maybe the first smart and complex drama I ever watched amongst the rise of blockbusters with a lot less to offer and even if a little more flawed upon scrutiny not much has changed as to how I feel about it, so yes, while no longer my favorite film, this is still an exhilarating favorite. Pretty much perfect in structure and pacing, the drama and thriller aspects only outweigh the…

While visually competent, everything else in the film is a trifecta of predictable, melodramatic and uncompelling. That which concerns itself with war is underplayed and that which concerns itself with grumbling peculiarities of the central cast is, well...the entire film. The more dramatic moments of weight can be seen a mile away and speaking of vision, composing oneself in a manner such as a Danny Cohen x Tom Hooper film under the circumstances certainly doesn't contribute to my thinking the…

“You, you, you’re like New York, Jewish, left-wing, liberal, intellectual, Central Park West, Brandeis University, the socialist summer camps and the, the father with the Ben Shahn drawings, right, and the really, y’ know, strike-oriented kind of, red diaper, stop me before I make a complete imbecile of myself.
Right, I’m a bigot, but for the left...“

I’ve been trying for the last, I guess twenty hours now to think of a way to describe Annie Hall, and sure, it’s…