Elijah Davidson
The Report is thoroughly engrossing. It’s the kind of movie that makes you forget where you are for a couple of hours. It’s intelligent but clear, and it resists grandstanding.
Elijah Davidson
Many of us have people like Zeke in our lives, well-meaning friends who do not have their lives together and whom we should no follow the example of. And yet they love us, and we love them
Elijah Davidson
The family that fights together, stays together in Fighting With My Family.
Elijah Davidson
When Before You Know It begins, you think it’s going to be just another riff on a formula made famous by Woody Allen – clever New Yorkers working in the arts and academia work out their relational issues via hijinks and therapy sessions. And yeah, that’s there.
Elijah Davidson
There is likely a complex, nuanced tale to be told about both these communities of faith, but it might be better done in documentary form. It’s too easy to use niche forms of faith as “otherness” to give relatively rote stories new appeal. Again, I quite liked Them That Follow. I’d recommend it for what it is but not for what I wish it could be.
Elijah Davidson
\Judy & Punch is just a terrific film. The acting is top notch. Subtle when that’s what’s needed and over-the-moon big when that’s better as well. Mia Wasikowska and Damon Herrimon in the titular roles really sell this. Writer/director Mirrah Foulkes shuffles tone like a master magician shuffling a deck of cards.
Elijah Davidson
Divine Love begins in an unexpected place—a rave—to deliberately stretch your expectation of what devout Christian religiosity looks like. Then it goes even more unexpected places. Given that this is a kind of gentle, speculative science-fiction film, Divine Love isn’t necessarily saying that faithful faith should look like this. It’s asking, could it?
Elijah Davidson
There is a lot of Love in If Beale Street Could Talk, so much beautiful Love it makes your belly ache.
Justin Wells
We need to watch this, because we need to know about the psychological components of domestic violence. We need to know about the patterns of abuse. We need to know about the difficulties victims face when they speak up.
Justin Wells
Perhaps the lesson here is that these men and women, this war, and the terror surrounding those fateful four years a century ago are no different from us, from our own time, and from the potential tragedies out current generation faces.
