A movie lives or dies on the believability of the performances. In the case of The Power of the Dog, you have to believe that Benedict Cumberbatch can play a bastard cowboy. To his credit, Cumberbatch manages to deliver upon … Continue reading The Power of the Dog (2021) Review
There is something powerful about simply retelling a story as a matter-of-fact series of events. This is the form that Attica takes, using witnesses from the event, people in and around the protest and those still affected by it, be … Continue reading Attica (2021) Review
Ascension is a good idea but you need to buy into what you are watching. There is no “hand-holding” here and it becomes fairly clear, fairly quickly, that you will witness events as a fly-on-the-wall rather than as a narrative … Continue reading Ascension (2021) Review
The best movies could put the characters in any situation and you would still be engrossed. If you’ve written your character well enough, you should be able to watch them shopping and it would be interesting. This is exactly the … Continue reading The Mitchells vs The Machines (2021) Review
Animation suits the documentary format so well that its surprising that more movies of this medium don’t use it. It is especially fitting when a person is recounting incredible events of their life. Rather than recreations, which documentaries like The … Continue reading Flee (2021) Review
The best of M Night Shyamalan movies have “the hook:” the concept that gets you invested in the story and Old has that. The movie follows a small group of holiday makers, made-up of differing family dynamics, thrown together on … Continue reading Old (2021) Review
There is a fresh inventiveness since Disney moved away from the “women as princesses” model of animation. Pixar aside, recent Disney movies have taken the traditional idea of a princess and turned them into heroes in their own right, often … Continue reading Encanto (2021) Review
Don’t Look Up is a movie about an asteroid which is hurtling towards Earth that will wipe humanity off the face of the planet… and it is scarily realistic. Not the asteroid part of course, although I’m sure there is … Continue reading Don’t Look Up (2021) Review
There is a strange balancing act that CODA attempts for the first two-thirds at least. On one hand you have a movie which seemingly tells a straight and realistic story of a CODA (child of deaf family), as Emilia Jones’ … Continue reading CODA (2021) Review
It seems that gone are the days of the “classic” Disney Princess and if young girls want a role model that kicks-ass, is assertive and holds the responsibility of the whole world in her grasp, Disney is one of the … Continue reading Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) Review
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