★½ Christopher Nolan does not believe in gods enough to make dramatic the act of defying them. The film he presents is not really an odyssey so much as a divine comedy, but without any comedy… or the divine. If this is supposed to be the epic, poetic tale of a king’s return – the […]
★★★ 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 […]
★★½ Let me start with this. Good Will Hunting is an Oscar satire. It’s a fine – if incomplete – movie in its own right, but when you look at it from a distance, two things stand out. The first is that Matt Damon had mired himself in way too many Zinn-ified revisionisms and pre-Revolutionary […]
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