This is a repost with Third Coast Review. At the center of Capernaum, the latest film from Lebanese writer/director (and actor) Nadine Labaki (Where Do We Go Now?, Caramel), is one of the year’s best performances, and it’s delivered by someone who isn’t even a teenager yet. Zain Al Rafeea is ...
2018 [in films]
Whenever people learn that I keep a spreadsheet to what films I see every year, the news is inevitably met with a bit of a giggle and a slight raise of the eye-brows. It's geeky, I know. But I also don't care, because movies—in case you didn't know by now—are kind of my jam. Some people have sports, ...
Review: If Beale Street Could Talk
This is a cross-post with Third Coast Review. To those with just a passing awareness of such things, Moonlight may only be known as that film at the center of Envelopegate at the 2017 Academy Awards; the cast and crew of La La Land ascended to the stage thinking they'd won Best Picture, only to ...
Review: On the Basis of Sex
This is a cross-post with Third Coast Review. It could be reasonably argued that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most important American woman alive today. In a deeply divided political climate, she sits in a pivotal seat on the highest court in the land, hailed by liberals and ...
Review: The Favourite
About a decade ago, when I was a young, budding, innocent cinephile, I heard about this film, Dogtooth. You must see it, they said. Naive and trusting as I was, I did just that. And I was never the same again. Dogtooth is filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos's break-out feature about grown siblings ...
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