Aftersun (2022) Film Review
“Aftersun” is unforgettable movie. Proustian, in that it is both a remembrance of things past and a search of lost time, it’s one of the best films of 2022.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 3, 2023 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, BAFTA, Best European Film, Critic Awards, DGA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Guild Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, LAFCA, My Favorites, National Board of Review, New Releases, NSFC, NYFCC, The Best of the Best, TV / Streaming
“Aftersun” is unforgettable movie. Proustian, in that it is both a remembrance of things past and a search of lost time, it’s one of the best films of 2022.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 3, 2023 | Amazon Prime Video, Award Season, Comedy, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, HBO Max, Horror, Hulu, My Favorites, New Releases, The Best of the Best, Thriller, TV / Streaming
There is a fantastic faceoff between Fiennes and a mysterious guest who was not invited. She is played by the extraordinary Anna Taylor-Joy
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 1, 2023 | Award Season, Comedy, Drama, Epic, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, My Favorites, Mystery, Netflix, New Releases, Road Movie, Science Fiction, The Best of the Best, TV / Streaming
Our savior is Driver, who, against all odds, manages to give another really good performance in inhospitable settings.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 21, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, BAFTA, Comedy, Critic Awards, DGA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Guild Awards, HBO Max, Historic Events, Hulu, LAFCA, My Favorites, National Board of Review, New Releases, NSFC, NYFCC, PGA, SAG, The Best of the Best, 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 Moreby Patrick | Aug 23, 2022 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, DGA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Gangster, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Guild Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, My Favorites, National Board of Review, New Releases, The Best of the Best, Thriller, TV / Streaming
Plaza’s performance is something to behold. All of that nervous energy is now bursting out in a performance that is always true and believable.
Read Moreby Patrick | Nov 6, 2022 | Apple TV+, Award Season, Critic Awards, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Historic Events, Independent Spirit Awards, LAFCA, My Favorites, New Releases, NSFC, Queer Film/TV, Romance, The Best of the Best, TV / Streaming
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 Moreby Patrick | Aug 21, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, Comedy, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Horror, Independent Spirit Awards, My Favorites, Mystery, New Releases, Queer Film/TV, The Best of the Best, Thriller, TV / Streaming
Beautifully Queer friendly, the relationship between Bee (Maria Bakalova) and Sophiie (Amanda Stenberg) is the emotional center of the movie.
Read Moreby Patrick | Apr 13, 2022 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, BAFTA, Comedy, Critic Awards, DGA, Drama, Epic, Fantasy, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Guild Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, LAFCA, National Board of Review, New Releases, NSFC, NYFCC, PGA, SAG, TV / Streaming
Remember Yeoh in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”? This is a similar tongue-in-cheek, highly physical, yet surprisingly, touching performance.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 23, 2022 | Apple TV+, Award Season, Comedy, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, My Favorites, New Releases, Queer Film/TV, Romance, The Best of the Best, TV / Streaming, Under Appreciated
Aamu Milonoff is exceptionally good, giving a beautifully grounded yet magical performance. The kind that makes you sit up and take notice.
Read Moreby Patrick | Nov 26, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, My Favorites, National Board of Review, New Releases, Queer Film/TV, The Best of the Best, TV / Streaming, Under Appreciated
The revelation is Pope. Those big, beautiful, expressive eyes speak volumes and question volumes. A gay man, you can feel his star presence.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 11, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, BAFTA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Guild Awards, Historic Events, LAFCA, My Favorites, National Board of Review, New Releases, SAG, The Best of the Best, TV / Streaming
The 2023 Best Actress Oscar Goes To…Danielle Deadwyler in Till. And as she reaches the volta of her magnificent speech she does something extraordinary…
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 28, 2022 | Award Season, Comedy, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, New Releases, Road Movie
The scene, which must have been extraordinarily difficult to play, is a triumph for Stanhope. A miniature masterpiece of great acting.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 8, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, Critic Awards, DGA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Guild Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, LAFCA, New Releases, NSFC, NYFCC, PGA, Queer Film/TV, SAG, Thriller, TV / Streaming
However, no one seems to have stopped and thought about the age difference between these two maestros. By my calculations, Lenny would have been teaching Lydia when she was five years old!
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 25, 2022 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Award Season, BAFTA, Comedy, Drama, Epic, Film Reviews, Genres, Guild Awards, Historic Events, Horror, My Favorites, New Releases, SAG, The Best of the Best, TV / Streaming
I had no problem sitting through the movie’s bloated 180-minute running because, through all of this nothingness, five actors manage to make lasting impressions
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 19, 2022 | ASC, Award Season, Comedy, Drama, Epic, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Guild Awards, Historic Events, Netflix, New Releases, Oscars, TV / Streaming
The result is an exhausting piece of self-indulgent filmmaking filled with moments of greatness with one indelible image after another.
Read Moreby Patrick | Nov 25, 2022 | Award Season, Drama, Fantasy, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Horror, Independent Spirit Awards, Mystery, New Releases, Queer Film/TV, Road Movie, Romance
Eventually it becomes impossible to feel anything for our unhappy couple, not least because Guadagnino keeps shifting the moral and ethical ground rules.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 29, 2022 | Award Season, BAFTA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Guild Awards, My Favorites, New Releases, PGA, SAG, The Best of the Best
As Charlie, an overweight teacher, Brendan Fraser gives a very sweet and appealing performance in director Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale”.
Read Moreby Patrick | Nov 16, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, BAFTA, Comedy, Critic Awards, DGA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Guild Awards, Historic Events, My Favorites, National Board of Review, New Releases, NSFC, PGA, SAG, The Best of the Best, TV / Streaming
He films one of his jock tormentors as a blond God-like figure – I swear, it reminded me of Leni Riefenstahl’s “Olympia.”
Read Moreby Patrick | Nov 9, 2022 | Award Season, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, New Releases
This time the dialogue seems forced, Zeller’s direction seems off. What really destroys this movie is the performance of the actor in the title role.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 1, 2022 | Award Season, Critic Awards, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Guild Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, LAFCA, National Board of Review, New Releases, SAG
Terrified of standing outside of the groupthink and dreading the Hollywood equivalent of being burnt alive in a Florentine piazza…
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 2, 2022 | Award Season, Comedy, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, New Releases, Romance
But O’Connor’s greatest failure is not trusting herself to deliver the goods as they were, and she plays with history to her detriment.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 28, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, BAFTA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Historic Events, New Releases, TV / Streaming
So, my advice is to watch this movie on your iPhone and fast-forward through everything except Morton and Ehle.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 18, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, BAFTA, Best European Film, Comedy, Critic Awards, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, LAFCA, New Releases, TV / Streaming
Ostlund’s trite and vulgar satire on the heartlessness of the monied classes is the most overhyped film of the year.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 4, 2022 | Award Season, BAFTA, Critic Awards, Documentary, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Historic Events, Independent Spirit Awards, LAFCA, National Board of Review, New Releases, NSFC, NYFCC, Queer Film/TV
“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” ends up falling between two stools and deceives its audience in the process.
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