Directed by Noah Baumbach Marriage Story begins and ends with a poetic little encapsulation of a character's day to day quirks, the things that don't always make it into movies because they don't advance the plot or add conscious information to the story. In this case the film adds an instant shot of humanity to a … Continue reading Marriage Story (2019)
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Certain Women (2016)
Directed by Kelly Reichardt Certain Women tells the story of three women in a small Montana town. Their lives intersect but not to any noteworthy degree, instead just passing by like the characters in Richard Linklater's Slacker. This overlapping quality has little to no dramatic momentum and instead just further fleshes out the world, to take … Continue reading Certain Women (2016)