Tag archives for Jason Clarke

“The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” (2023): Post-Afghanistan Catharsis (Review)

★★★★ “The reprimand, if there is to be one, must come from your own conscience.” William Friedkin’s swan song is the year’s greatest film.  Cretins will dismiss its sentiments as mere boomer talk, but years from now it will endure for what it is – a mic drop from one of America’s greatest cinematic provocateurs […]

“Oppenheimer” (2023): Cold Radioactive Ambivalence (Review)

★★★ If the entire world was destroyed in 1945, at least the commies would go with it. Oppenheimer will not decisively answer the universal questions you bring with you to the big screen.  To the extent I can extrapolate an answer from Christopher Nolan himself based upon the story of the film, I suspect that […]