Jun 17, 2024 · Even with these bumps, “Inside Out 2” zips confidently along, fashioning a hypnotic and transportive imaginativeness that is incredible to take in. Powered by an aching core of emotion, the film still manages to be a wondrous distillation of the overwhelming angst, incredible solitude, and difficult changes many teenagers are going through.

Aug 7, 2024 · After the emotional turmoil of her estranged father’s funeral in Maine, our heroine, the impeccably fashionable Lily Bloom (Blake Lively, the best clotheshorse movie star since Kay Francis), breaks into a rooftop to peer at the vast beauty of Boston’s skyline.Before she can do much introspection, she meets the impossibly handsome and impossibly named Ryle Kincaid …

Oct 16, 2024 · Among writer-director Baker’s (and his producing partner and spouse Samantha Quan’s) many gifts is exquisite casting, and one wonders if the steely Madison’s short but memorable “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” performance is what landed her the title role here.

Jul 10, 2024 · Cut to years later, sometime in an exaggerated ‘90s – there’s a photo of Clinton on the wall of the FBI Director’s office to set the time, but a lot of the production design feels even older than that era, once again creating a sort of dream-logic disconnect – where new agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) arrives for her first case.Acting on a sort of psychic hunch, she …

Nov 22, 2024 · As water rises, flooding everything in its path, the cat finds itself standing on an island of its own, quite literally. A giant statue of a cat—a monument to feline companions—is almost completely submerged, forcing the hero to survive by …

Sep 27, 2024 · When the war begins, Miller gets a photography job with British Vogue, which has been directed “to encourage the women of Britain to do their duty” by bringing the urgency of what’s happening into the pages of a fashion magazine.At first, she takes pictures of the Blitz, “bombs, chaos, but everyone carried on, and I did what I could to capture it.”

Sep 5, 2024 · In that opening scene, we meet Katie (Carrie Coon), Christina (Elizabeth Olsen) and Rachel (Natasha Lyonne). Katie’s arms are crossed—a recurring body language choice by Coon and Jacobs to illustrate how closed off this constant planner is from those around her—as she rants about the fact that her dying father Vincent (Jay O. Sanders) doesn’t have a DNR.

Dec 24, 2024 · “A Complete Unknown” opens with a recording by Woody Guthrie, one of the main influences on a young Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet), who we meet on his way to introduce himself to the man whose work “struck him to the ground.”Guthrie, played by Scoot McNairy, is in a hospital in Jersey, and he happens to be visited by the legendary Pete Seeger (a …

Dec 24, 2024 · This version of “Nosferatu” is actually a fusion of two sources, the original 1924 silent film “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror,” directed by F.W. Murnau; and Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula and the 1932 Tod Browning movie that adapted it. Maybe we should say that there are three main sources: another major influence is Francis Coppola’s silent-film-influenced yet …

Jan 1, 2025 · Based on the real-life story of World War II resistance fighter Gunnar Sønsteby, Norwegian director John Andreas Andersen’s “Number 24” is a sturdy, handsomely mounted period piece depicting the emotional toll required for freedom.