Directed by Tom Harper The Aeronauts is satisfying. Half of it is a pure survival story right up there with some of the better ones (like The Martian, All is Lost, Gravity) while the other half struggles to push past constructed melodrama and instead leans into the same emotionally manipulative qualities as what we'd consider Oscar bait. In … Continue reading The Aeronauts (2019)
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Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
Directed by John Huston In Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison a marine and a nun find themselves stranded on an island together. This sounds like it's leading to a punchline, but John Huston's film is much more empathetic to the internal code of each character, the respective forces by which they abided that have stranded them on … Continue reading Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
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