The Social Network
6.5. Fincher does a great job to weave the variegated strands into a film that is engaging throughout. However, as with his previous Zodiac, one wondered what the point was – a problem made worse here...
View ArticleFilm: The American
8. A striking, spare film that assembles mystery and emotional involvement from the slightest of narratives.
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6/10. One of those films that I would probably rate more highly if the reviews hadn’t been so positive. This isn’t bad, and it does a lot with its premise — in no small part due to excellent central...
View ArticleThe Tree of Life
8.5. Beautiful, allusive and moving. As with Malick’s other work, sparing use of dialogue, fragmented scenes, and powerful images combine to a whole that is both complete and skeletal, suggesting, like...
View ArticleFilm: Haywire
7.5 (8.5 for genre). Stylish with an excellent lead performance (its pared down presentation and plot had echoes of the classic Point Blank). Though lacking in any great substance (cf, to say, The...
View ArticleFilm: The Artist
8.5/10. A wonderful, moving and surprising piece of film-making. Intriguingingly conceived and beautifully executed.
View ArticleLa Grande Bellezza
Score: 9/10 I have now watched Paolo Sorrentino’s extraordinary film three times. It is one of the most striking, beautiful and poignant films I have seen in a very long time and a truly worthy...
View ArticleArrrival
8/10. Beautiful, reflective, gentle and poignant. For a sci-fi blockbuster it was unusually cerebral: the central character is a linguist in a permanent semi-mourning for the loss of her child. An...
View ArticleEnlightened [TV Series]
I have nearly finished the first series of Enlightened, a TV Series created by Laura Dern and Mike White. The series is extraordinary – even in a world where TV series have become over the last ten...
View ArticleBlack Mirror – Episode 2
First saw this very late at night about 1.5y ago. Brilliant and dark – much more so than the first one. It has an Ouroboros-ian nature. On his interest in the girl: Existential crisis masquerading as...
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