Essays & Reviews
Capra's tale makes it clear that when we solely pursue our own ends, we create miserable, rootless communities defined by greed, cruelty, and indifference; places where living is expensive, and where being good to one another is unaffordable.
Mangold is perhaps the only filmmaker who could successfully set a western, neo-noir thriller in the shadow of New York City.
Years steaped in the war against foreign tyranny had slowly tranformed Hitchens into a cold iconoclast; a liberal indifferent to banal injustice.
Antinatalism is a cold, loathing and ultimately resentful delusion that convinces those who believe it that all moments of joyful and loving connection are worthless; when they are, in reality, the very best things that we have and do.
What Verheoven shows is that fascism turns living, feeling individuals into non-persons; people who live only for the destruction of something else.
McCarthy unashamedly demonstrates that good journalism is as painfully intimate as critical self-reflection -- containing all the same frustrations, inadequacies and inhibitions.
Considering that butchering sequels has become standard in Hollywood today, the fact that The Shinning was followed by a film like this is close to miraculous.
David Lowery's "The Green Knight" uses powerful themes and engrossing performances to deliver an outlandishly subversive fantasy-epic.
Regina King's "One Night in Miami" is a stunning exploraton of four exceptional African-American men and the many ways in which their lives challenged American racism.
Marielle Heller's "A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood" is a heartwarming biopic that uses clever writing and strong characterisation to transcend the typical staleness of the genre.
Tom Osborne 