The nostalgia factor on this one is high. I, like many other children, grew up on Winnie the Pooh. I watched the full-length movies, the cartoons, and I’m pretty sure I had a stuffed Pooh […]
Tag: 2010s
Hannah (Pallaoro, 2017)
Andrea Pallaoro’s Hannah is all show and no tell, and that has both benefits and drawbacks. In terms of the latter, it makes it harder for us to really connect with the true predicament of Charlotte Rampling’s […]
Black Panther (Coogler, 2018)
I’ve made it clear in other reviews that I’m no Marvel fanatic, and that their cookie-cutter approach to plot and characterization has becoming maddeningly repetitive with each new entry. It’s so nice, then, to watch […]
Summer 1993 (Simón, 2017)
The impressionistic touches in Summer 1993 are wonderful to behold, and you always know they’re coming from a deep place because of how authentic they feel. The scene in which Frida dresses up and playacts the role […]
Claire’s Camera (Hong, 2017)
Ah, yet another deceptive bonbon from our favourite South Korean auteur. And an odd one, at that, since the soju-drinking is kept to a minimum, and we’re planted in France this time around—more specifically, in […]
Beast (Pearce, 2017)
I liked the idea of Beast more than the execution, which is on the over-stylised side for my taste. All the moody lighting and portentous music distracts from the visceral darkness of the story, and the way […]
Crazy Rich Asians (Chu, 2018)
I saw Crazy Rich Asians last night [August 28], and oddly very little is sticking with me apart from the wedding service soundtracked to “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” which I’ll admit was moving and sweet. The […]
Support the Girls (Bujalski, 2018)
I love that this is a love letter to working-class women like Regina Hall’s Lisa: women who carve out careers in the hospitality industry and put up with a shit load of racism and misogyny […]
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (Neville, 2018)
I remember seeing snippets of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood when I was young. I didn’t catch it in its entirety because I was at school when it aired, but I remember finding it so serene. Fred Rogers had […]
Three Identical Strangers (Wardle, 2018)
This is the kind of documentary film you’d show to a university data methods class while rapping the desk with a pointer and shouting ETHICAL STANDARDS MATTER. It’s pretty much how Wardle goes about setting […]
The Wife (Runge, 2017)
Stories about declining marriages have been told for eons, and it’s no different in film. It seems like every week we get a new take on the “marriage in crisis” genre, and The Wife is one more […]
Raw (Ducournau, 2016)
After letting Raw sit with me for a while, I’ve come to admire it more than actually love it.
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) [Baumbach, 2017]
Even though The Meyerowitz Stories lacks the magic of Frances Ha or the emotional import of The Squid and the Whale, it still manages to justify its existence by veering off the beaten path—even if just slightly.
Princess Cyd (Cone, 2017)
I urge you all to seek this out as soon as possible. It is one of those obscure achievements that deserves all the attention it can get.
Coco (Unkrich, 2017)
Like much of the Pixar canon, Coco is a universal film that reaches the hearts of both children and adults alike.
The Lonely Film Critic 