John Carney has a way of making the ordinary extraordinary in his heavily musical focused movies. This time around he gives us authentic relationships, cautious optimism, and a great soundtrack to help tell a story about messy mothers and the power music has to bring people together.
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William Friedkin always loved the gray area and characters who couldn’t be defined in just one simple way, and here he masterfully explores that through a trial that forces us to consider mental illness (and specifically how that is defined), ego, and leadership experience as they relate to a major conflict in decision-making between Naval Officers that has resulted on one of them being accused of mutiny. Riveting, fantastic work here all-around, and a perfect companion piece to my beloved THE CAINE MUTINY (1954).
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There is no need at all for this film to connect directly back to the original and how it chooses to do so is a complete waste of time (and Ellen Burstyn’s talent). But David Gordon Green does a great job of capturing parental fear and the unique angle of dual possessions in girls with parents from different beliefs systems makes this a fresh, intriguing story all the way to its scary and thought-provoking ending. Conceptually better than it is deep, but still very entertaining.
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This is the story of a composer who is creatively reinvigorated after a romantic encounter with an eccentric tug boat captain, and if that’s all it was it might have a chance at being decent enough. But a very serious pivot in central focus midway through creates a strange mishmash of ideas that never works, and some decisions about how to present certain relationship dynamics are extremely troublesome.
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Gareth Edwards brings big ideas about humanity’s war-torn relationship with A.I. and an epic science fiction scale to the screen, but while certainly nice to look at, the film unfortunately doesn’t explore anything in an interesting or meaningful way and ends up feeling like a high-budget television movie setting the stage for a series that will never be.
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Visually stunning with plenty of explosive action and an intriguing premise centered on humans seeking revenge for an A.I. nuclear attack, but unfortunately lacking in exploration of its bigger ideas, largely a reskin of STAR WARS, and only somewhat effective emotionally. Could have been, and should have been, so much more.
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I’m doing my best to continue finding a connection for each pair of reviews. This time that link is the water. One is the excellent, inspirational and rousing dramatized story of real life super athlete Diana Nyad, who swam from Cuba to Florida in her 60s, and the other is a fantasy tale about a mysterious child with healing powers who washes up on the shore of a secluded island community and changes their way of life for better and worse.
0:00 – Intro
0:53 – NYAD
10:26 – The King Tide
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The real life story of Philadelphia everyman Vince Papale and his unlikely journey to professional football player is a bit sanitized by the Disney production, but still covers the great success in an enjoyable manner that captures the heart of what he accomplished and what it meant to those who cheered him on.
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Whether you like your assassins fake, sexy, and a bit silly or old, grizzled, and seeking redemption, this episode is for you. Glen Powell oozes movie star charisma in Richard Linklater’s untraditional rom-com and Michael Keaton directs himself to sleep in a dramatic story of dementia.
0:00 – Intro
0:53 – Hit Man
10:03 – Knox Goes Away
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Familiar stories can still be emotionally effective and entertaining, as we see in new work from both Alexander Payne and Hayao Miyazaki. THE HOLDOVERS feels like a simple dramedy that we don’t often see, but is charming and touching in equal measure. In Miyazaki’s latest fantastical adventure, a boy travels to a magical world and copes with the loss of his mother, and the director infuses the work with themes of legacy and memory that feel extremely personal.
0:00 – Intro
0:53 – The Holdovers
06:51 – The Boy and the Heron
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