Tim Jackson
Long stretches of the evening ask the audience to listen to annoying children’s voices in the dark.
Xavier Giannoli’s Marguerite is a wonderful study of delusion and illusion, the deceptive power of love and faith.
Embrace of the Serpent presents a world where nature and dreams provide the most satisfying answers.
I admire director Terrence Malick for continuing to jettison staid storytelling for the sake of exploring his dense moral vision.
The movie plays all sides equally, providing no answers, no favorites, no villains, no heroes. Everybody’s motives and ethics are in question.
The lightheartedness of the writing and Moore’s unkempt look are jarring, but the film effectively delivers lessons about progressive policies.
Here’s one more wrap-up of the year in film.
The Hateful Eight is Quentin Tarantino’s richly textured love letter to B movies.
Ruminations on age and memory are inevitably sunk deep into the flesh and the glue of personal relationships.
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