“The New York Times compared the recalcitrant Trump, refusing to concede defeat and surrounded by a thinning flock of enablers, to Desmond at her end, when “the dream she had clung to so desperately enfolded her.” Wilder’s film plays on the change over two decades in a technology which in 1910 seemed endlessly fresh and benevolent; one hundred years later, social media has taken the place of the silent film, but the song remains the same.”
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“Grave of the Fireflies is an unflinching survey of how innocence and imagination- in a word, the nostalgic, pure-hearted escapism with which Studio Ghibli is synonymous- cannot protect the innocent from suffering.”
Read More“A world of sweaty, lissom bodies grinding indiscriminately against each other on jam-packed beaches is a distant memory; Spring Breakers has taken on the tone of a memorial to a lost way of life.”
Read More“For all his failures- as an actor, and as an individual unable to move past a byegone era- Withnail has remained a weirdly intriguing, witty and touching point of reference for generations of young, reckless viewers, even as they age out of relating to him.”
Read More“In true Allen form, he is in the film, though not literally; Vicky has many of the Allen quirks, each garnished with his incisive wit and crippling neurosis.”
Read More“Truly a film for 2020: this mismanaged melodrama spends too long stuck in a house and achieving very little.”
Read More“It’s a film that promotes the melancholy nobility of individualism, even when it’s frowned upon.”
Read More“Alabama is a call-girl, paid by Clarence’s boss to 'run into' Clarence and get him laid. She eventually admits the setup, and Clarence responds not by rejecting her, but by marrying her. So far it could almost be Pretty Woman.”
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