All of Us Strangers: The Best Movie Of 2023 A+
The direction of Haigh in this film is exceptional, creating an enthralling atmosphere that visually amazes the audience.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Nov 6, 2023 | A+, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Historic Events, Masterpieces, Mystery, New Releases, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Romance, Science Fiction, Thriller |
The direction of Haigh in this film is exceptional, creating an enthralling atmosphere that visually amazes the audience.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Nov 6, 2023 | A-, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), MUBI, Mystery, New Releases, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Romance, Thriller, TV / Streaming |
Walker’s film follows three teenage girls on vacation in Greece. Mia McKenna-Bruce delivers a heartbreaking performance as Tara. One of the year’s best.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Nov 21, 2023 | B+, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Historic Events, Music Biography, Netflix, New Releases, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Romance, TV / Streaming |
Leaving out vast chunks of the great conductor’s life, Cooper gives a vain impersonation of a vain man while Carey Mulligan takes the acting honors.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Oct 15, 2023 | B, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Historic Events, Netflix, New Releases, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming |
Both actresses are marvelous with Foster giving her best performance in decades.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Jan 31, 2022 | Classic Film Noir, Criterion Collection, Film Noir, Genres (Action - Music Scene), TV / Streaming |
Fox Noir: Welcome to the world of the femme fatale and multiple flashbacks. Otto Preminger’s “Laura” with Clifton Webb is the crown jewel. And Gene Tierney.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Aug 16, 2021 | Classic Film Noir, Film Noir, Genres (Action - Music Scene) |
The amazing gift of “Mildred Pierce” is that, like “Baby Jane”, it plays as drama and camp simultaneously with no dichotomy involved.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Sep 30, 2022 | Favorites, Hitchcock and other great movie directors, Underappreciated |
Eleanor and Frank Perry’s last movie together was their best, a wonderful adaptation of Sue Kaufman’s “Diary of a Mad Housewife”.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Nov 23, 2023 | A+, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Masterpieces, MUBI, Ratings: Movies and Television, Romance, TV / Streaming |
The leads are just about perfect, and the film is enlivened at every turn by the director’s usual penchant for deadpan humor.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Oct 26, 2023 | A+, Action, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Criterion Collection, Drama, Epic, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Historic Events, Horror, Masterpieces, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Road Movie, Thriller, TV / Streaming, Underappreciated |
Pálmason, his cinematographer (Maria von Hausswolff), and his composer (Alex Zhang Hungtai), bring back colonial memories of such movies as “Black Robe”.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Oct 21, 2022 | A+, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Historic Events, Hulu, Masterpieces, Max, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming |
Condon is breathtakingly good, capturing every scene she’s in with a mixture of common sense and sadness, but always with a drollness lurking in the background.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Jun 26, 2023 | A-, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Historic Events, Horror, Hulu, Masterpieces, Mystery, Ratings: Movies and Television, Thriller, TV / Streaming |
“X/Pearl,” parts 1 and 2 of writer/director Ti West’s horror trilogy, are anointed by Mia Goth’s performance. Part 3, “Maxxxine”, arrives in 2024.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Jan 3, 2023 | A+, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Historic Events, Hulu, Masterpieces, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming, Underappreciated |
As for Judy Davis she gives what is probably her most outstanding performance, which means it’s one of the greatest performances ever captured on film.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Dec 28, 2021 | A+, Action, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Documentary, Drama, Epic, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Historic Events, Masterpieces, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Thriller, TV / Streaming |
I left “Flee” with that “floating-on-air feeling” that you get after seeing something special. After seeing a masterpiece.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Dec 27, 2021 | A+, Archival Posts, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Masterpieces, Netflix, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming |
Memories of Fellini and the Taviani Brothers at their peak. It’s his “Amarcord” (I remember). It’s also his “La Dolce Vita.”
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Dec 13, 2021 | A+, Action, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Masterpieces, Musical, Ratings: Movies and Television, Romance, TV / Streaming |
West Side Story is Spielberg’s Triumph! Of course, it is Anita who is the real star of the movie and Ariana DeBose is astonishing.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Dec 27, 2021 | A+, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Historic Events, Hulu, Masterpieces, Ratings: Movies and Television, Thriller, TV / Streaming, Underappreciated |
Aida knows the horrific fate that awaits her husband and two sons if they are found and, for two hours, you watch as she frantically tries to get them out.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Apr 14, 2023 | A+, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Historic Events, Masterpieces, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming, Underappreciated |
“Beanpole” conveys, beautifully, the ability of human beings to find moments of intimacy and even love under the most horrific of circumstances.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Jul 28, 2022 | A+, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Horror, Masterpieces, Mystery, Ratings: Movies and Television, Science Fiction, Thriller, TV / Streaming |
Guys with erect penises walking downward into a transparent ooze, confused, as Scarlett walks on another level above them.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Jul 27, 2022 | A+, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Horror, Masterpieces, Mystery, Ratings: Movies and Television, Science Fiction, Thriller, TV / Streaming, Underappreciated |
It boasts a tremendous performance by Michael Shannon as a quiet man, raising a family, who has horrific nightmares and daytime visions of a meteorological disturbance followed by a feeling that we (the Earth) are being visited by something alien.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Dec 8, 2023 | A, Archival Posts, Drama, Favorites, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Romance, Thriller |
Oldroyd pulls out all the stops and the three actresses complement one another so perfectly that we end up savoring 2023’s best scene.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Nov 1, 2023 | Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Horror, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Thriller |
Fennell’s writing and directing are brilliantly inventive, with humor, tragedy, and horror mixing perfectly. She gets immense support from her cinematographer, Linus Sandgren, whose work here is truly breathtaking.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Nov 6, 2022 | A, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Historic Events, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Romance, TV / Streaming, Underappreciated |
And Henry gives a tour de force performance that matches his spine-tingling monologue in “If Beale Street Could Talk”. Like Lawrence he is one of the all-time greats.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Apr 2, 2023 | A, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming |
In the opening 45 minutes of “Close”, Belgian director Lukas Dhont captures an intimacy that is extraordinary in its delicacy.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Jan 14, 2022 | A, Action, Archival Posts, Drama, Epic, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Mystery, Netflix, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming, Western |
“The Power of the Dog” is one of the best films of 2021. Campion directs with an expert hand assisted by Ari Wegner’s cinematography and Jonny Greenwood’s memorable score.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Jan 3, 2022 | A, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Historic Events, Hulu, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming |
Stewart is simply amazing in the role channeling all that star power into a Diana, you feel you know instantly.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Sep 19, 2023 | A-, Archival Posts, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), MUBI, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming, Underappreciated |
Adele Exarchopoulos gives a stunning performance as a flight attendant handling the grueling task of working for a low-cost carrier.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | May 16, 2023 | A-, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Romance, TV / Streaming, Underappreciated |
Laporte is tremendous in portraying a complex character who appears to have an “escape” but really doesn’t. It’s a heartbreaking performance.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Aug 21, 2022 | A-, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Horror, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Thriller, TV / Streaming |
Beautifully Queer friendly, the relationship between Bee (Maria Bakalova) and Sophiie (Amanda Stenberg) is the emotional center of the movie.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Dec 17, 2022 | A-, Archival Posts, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Historic Events, Netflix, Ratings: Movies and Television, Romance, TV / Streaming, Underappreciated |
Superb performances by Emma Corrin and Jack O’Connell transform this adaptation into a film of great beauty and, yes, sensuality.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | May 1, 2022 | A-, Action, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Drama, Epic, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Mystery, Ratings: Movies and Television, Thriller, TV / Streaming, Underappreciated, Western |
The directors are extremely cine-literate. However, their references never seemed forced and I basked in their cinematic vision.
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