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Eggy movie12/29/2023 ![]() ![]() A necessary breath of fresh air before the film becomes a somewhat oppressive and stressful POV take on the horrors of war.Īll hail Mariel Heller, who managed to direct America’s Dad as America’s Friendliest Neighbor without being overly saccharine or sentimental. ![]() What worked for me was the chemistry between the film’s stars, George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman, who help turn a WWI epic into a tender story about friendship and family. I don’t know exactly how I feel now but I know I want to watch it again and that I think about it frequently.Ī lot has been said about the filmmaking and “one-take” effect employed by Roger Deakins (cinematographer) and Sam Menders (director), which is impressive and worthy of the praise it’s received, but I won’t belabor that point. Over the next month or so I found myself telling people that Us was a blast, and that it’s intention was not to be read more deeply, but simply enjoyed as a brilliantly crafted and visually stunning modern horror masterpiece. On second viewing every choice was cheapened and I found that I liked it less, saddened by what I saw as shallow metaphor and an ending that ripped of Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation. The first time I saw Jordan Peele’s follow-up to 2017′s breakout hit Get Out, I liked it a lot and ached for a second viewing to pick up on all the easter-eggs and deeper meaning behind his choices. The Metallica needle-drop as a helicopter flies over a South American highway and mountain range all but cemented this movie’s place on this list. What seems like a typical heist movie about one more job surprises half way through by turning into a film about survival at any cost. Oscar Isaac, Ben Affleck, Charlie Hunnam, Garret Hedlund and Pedro Pascal (whom Netflix is smart enough to not hide behind armor and a helmet) are former Special Forces soldiers who team up to rob a South American crime boss. If you know me at all, you should have seen this coming. If that’s not enough to compel you to watch this film (streaming on Hulu), at least watch the music video for Glasgow, an original song from the film that is also one of my favorite songs of the year. A troubled young woman recently released from a Scottish women’s prison attempts to follow her dream of becoming a famous Nashville country singer. One of the strongest performances of the year, Jessie Buckley is enough to vault this pretty good movie into my top 20. Let’s just hope Disney/Pixar ends things here. That might sound like a rehash TS3, but the fourth installment proved itself unique and worthy of addition to the canon. ![]() I’m not sure anyone believed this would be more than a cash-grab, but Pixar employed it’s flagship franchise and characters to explore ideas about growing up and letting go. It’s available for free on Amazon Prime.Īlright… here is my top 20 films of 2019 list, which changed yesterday, will change a little tomorrow, and will look completely different in a year:Ī perfect end to a near-perfect franchise. An achingly romantic epic (though only 88 minutes in length) directed by Polish master-filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski, who won the best foreign film Oscar for 2013′s Ida, Cold War depicts the tragic love story of two musicians spanning multiple decades in post-WWII Europe. I’d also like to use this space to praise Cold War, which was distributed after my 2018 list came out but would have made it to the top 5 of the year. Somewhere(rent it on iTunes, Amazon, or anywhere) Teddy Bear (10 timer til Paradis)(available on Amazon Prime) Two highlights of non-2019 movies that I discovered for the first time this year and haven’t stopped thinking or talking about: I went to the movies 101 times and watched about 250 movies in total between the theater and home viewings. I’m not much of a writer, just someone who likes movies and wants other people to like them too. Last year I used this space to post a list and short write-up of my favorite movies of 2018.
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