Challenging as a moral experience Joshua Oppenheimer’s two documentaries “The Act of Killing” (2012) and “The Look of Silence” (2014) for Indonesia’s communist genocide perpetrators as he asks them to imagine themselves in the headspace of a person who killed during the 1960’s communist purge in Indonesia. Oppenheimer provokes them to relish and re-image the […]
The Odyssey comes to an end in an interesting and satisfactory manner as the violence unleashed by the family includes the tormentors of the family, but also the relationship between the husband and wife which had been tumultuously put through a test of distance and time is beautifully restored (here romantic is a very different
In director Justin Kurzel’s “The Order,” Jude Law has the scruffiest look of his career. He stars in the film as FBI agent Terry Husk, but considering his portrayal, he seems more of a husk than an agent. He looked disheveled. His big body was hunched over, his unshaven stubble looked sloppy, and his gum
The truth will always be that being a mom isn’t easy. This is a fact that any viewer can recognize as being portrayed in “Nightbitch”, although the portrayal might not strike a cord with everybody. The film, which is an adaptation of Yoder’s popular book, attempts to go in strange and dangerous territory but seems
Despite the fact that Paul Schrader historically wrote about a unique aspect of film, which featured men who kept diaries or self-initiated journals in how Robert Bresson’s “Diary of a Country Priest”, which was a highly important movie to Paul Schrader’s film philosophy. He has a long-standing interest in Bresson, who appears in the title
The film Separated, directed by Errol Morris, has an interesting storyline. Its about the dastardly practice of separating families at the Mexico US border through the eyes of a Mexican American family. Morris’s secondary characters move to the center with their back stories and their analysis. This is Morris’s trademark style. His examination of the
It seems to be the start of a Charles Manson cult regarding the film “It’s Not Me”, my previous statement might sound like I’m being sarcastic or sour but I genuinely hold a lack of regard for The Criterion Channel because all its films holding some semblance of cult bearing are bland and don’t come
In his film “A Complete Unknown”, James Mangold compromises what it means to portray a life, in this case Bob Dylan’s life, while still depicting montage principles in relation to art. This is certainly a first out of many for Mangold’s filmography, as Dylan is probably one of the more famous individuals to be featured
“Kraven the Hunter” was the name that appeared on papers as Sony’s another Spider-Man spin off, but a lot of bad reviews and cut down scenes later, the movie did nothing to expand Sony’s universe of Spiderman. ‘Madame Web’, ‘Venom: The Last Dance’ and even ‘Kraven the hunter’ turned out to be a disappointment, to
Some movies are simply better translated onto the screen than others. RaMell Ross’ ‘Nickel Boys’ is one of them. It is an interesting reimagining of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer winning novel. One can be rather certain about the film with the confidence that rules the story. The film constructs the powerful tale of a young Elwood
