Movie Review – Promising Young Woman
Funny, sad, thought provoking and shocking at times. The film will linger in your mind.
Funny, sad, thought provoking and shocking at times. The film will linger in your mind.
I didn’t know what the film was about. So, I went to see it, and it turns out the filmmakers didn’t know either.
It never adds up to grand scenes or emotions, but it puts hooks in you that will have you re-visiting the film in your mind days later.
Is Spike Lee back? I don’t wanna cause any jinxes, but if he keeps this upward pattern I’d be happy to say he’s back.
Lo and behold, Fred Rogers is legit!
This film is a return to form for Jason Reitman.
Stephen Frears veers between comedy and drama in the same film, to mixed results.
The whole thing gets a little murky but fear not – the second half of this movie brings everything home quite spectacularly.
Paul Preston’s ongoing effort to watch a movie a day for the rest of his life. Today’s movie – “Admission”.
This is one of those rare instances where you must share the power and emotions in a darkened theater with a large group of people.
A visceral and violent story within a story. The tonic is mixture of Hitchcock, Lynch and Kubrick.
From the panoramic vistas of the Italian countryside, to the panoramic vistas of Clooney’s profile, “The American” is a collection of painstakingly conceived shots strung together over the story of a man who seems to have one last chance to save his soul, and the hooker who loves him.