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)
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Directed by Michael Cimino At first glance Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges seem like an odd pair, almost as if they were shooting two entirely different movies and one day just stumbled onto the same set. Here they play a bank robber and a, well I guess a petty car thief. Part of the unexpected … Continue reading Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Wildlife (2018)
Directed by Paul Dano Wildlife is a tense, bleak family drama set in the early 1960s, kind of like Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road (2008). Both films deal with young married couples who are no longer happy and don't know why. Presumably they were sold a false bill of goods about the American Dream, particularly in postwar … Continue reading Wildlife (2018)
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