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Anatomy Of A Fall - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 of 10 General Audience Score - 8 of 10 Each spring, in the country of France, in the Mediterranean seaside town of Cannes, filmmakers from all over the world gather for the purpose of exploring and discovering new films. When the film festival is over, they award the top film with a prize called the Palme d’Or, and oddly enough, starting in the year 2019 with the film Parasite, Neon studios has managed to win this coveted prize every year since. The latest film to continue the studios incredible hot streak is the French film Anatomy Of A Fall, which is finally starting to drop into theatres nationwide. While this dialogue heavy foreign film has a decent amount of spoken French in it, it also has maybe 30-40% spoken English, making it quite a bit more accessible to audiences here in the United States. This film is primarily a courtroom drama, as I mentioned, this screenplay has to be one of the longest of the year and at almost a two an...

Killers Of The Flower Moon - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 of 10 General Audience Score - 7 of 10 If you were to do a Family Feud style survey and ask a hundred people who the greatest movie director of all time is, you undoubtedly would get Alfred Hitchcock’s name on the board, Steven Spielberg would be up there, possibly even Stanley Kubrick as well. Where he would place I cannot say, but without much doubt Martin Scorsese’s name would be up on the board and although he’s never been one of my favorite directors personally, there is simply no denying this man’s filmography. The master of the mobster movie is back in theaters with his new film from Apple Studios, Killers Of The Flower Moon, starring his good buddies Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio. In some ways this is pretty standard crime/western/drama movie fare, great book material is converted into a great film, but this movie doesn’t make you rethink your life, make you burst out in tears or leave you on any kind of cinemat...

Saltburn - Movie Review Critics Score - 9 of 10 General Audience Score - 9 of 10 The first movie review I ever wrote, the film that inspired me to begin writing reviews almost three years ago, was the directorial debut from Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman. That film review, although I go back and read it now and cringe, (please don’t go read it because it’s not good), was the first big stepping stone for my journey into the wonderful world of critiquing cinema. But now, the Oscar winning screenplay writer Fennell is back with her follow-up film from Amazon Studios that drops into theatres on Thanksgiving, and it’s called Saltburn. It’s the story of a lonely young man that goes to college, meets another male student at the school that he immediately takes a liking to, yet his motives remain unclear. The movie explores the themes of gluttonous extravagance, sexual desire, carnal depravity and it provides plenty of shocking moments that’ll leave audiences laughing and gasping along...

Blackbird Blackbird BlackBerry - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 of 10 General Audience Score - 6 of 10 In about the most southeastern part of Eastern that you can find, on the other side of the Black Sea from Ukraine and Romania, lies the little country of Georgia, just a little bigger than the state of West Virginia, for those of us here in the U.S.. Every year we get many fantastic foreign films from all over the world, but especially from Europe, many of which go on to receive Oscar nominations for Best International Feature Film. This year we get a really special little film from Georgia called Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry, which first played at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and is now getting out to some of the other film festivals to get more eyes on it. Blackbird is the simple story of a middle aged woman, for the sake of political correctness we’ll refer to her as the film does, plump. She’s a bit of a lone wolf, she has no husband, no children, she’s got no family left that ...

Foe - Movie Review Critics Score - 5 of 10 General Audience Score - 7 of 10 When it comes to futuristic sci-fi fare, I’m a big fan of such stories, especially when a writer can take an idea about where we’re headed as a species and breathe life and humanity into the script, making me contemplate some of the deeper questions about my existence. Take as an example, my favorite film of last year, After Yang. Well, this year we get a new film that’ll be dropping into a theatre near you soon and eventually onto Amazon, Foe, starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal. The premise of the film was interesting enough, in the future, humanity has tapped out most of the planet’s natural resources and now things aren’t going great, so we’ve started sending people into space to start colonizing elsewhere. Sounds cool. Even though that’s all well and good, there were some serious issues with the writing, and despite the interesting idea, it lacked being fleshed out in a way that brought humanity to the ...

Fallen Leaves - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 of 10 General Audience Score - 7 of 10 Since the induction of moving pictures on a big screen, people have lined up to watch other people fall in love. The romantic relationship depictions between two people, sometimes with some humor thrown in for good measure, has brought people venturing out to the movies for the chance to fall in love all over again. A new international film from Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki called Fallen Leaves is here to take such audiences on another trip down lovers lane. This foreign film, naturally in spoken Finnish, is a delightful little romp that looks and feels much older, like a movie from the 1960’s or 70’s. The narrative plays like An Affair To Remember or Sleepless In Seattle, the two main characters are apart for great lengths of the film, and we’re rooting for these star crossed lovers to find their way past all the obstacles the screenwriter throws at them and get together. The film is as light, fu...

Perfect Days - Movie Review Critics Score - 9 of 10 General Audience Score - 6 of 10 Wim Wenders is a German writer, director and producer that’s been making movies and short films since the late 1960’s. He really hit a stride in the 1980’s and in 1984, he made a movie that many consider to be among the greatest arthouse films of all time, Paris, Texas. Although Wenders hasn’t made quite as many full length films this decade as he has in the ones prior, Wenders is back with a new foreign film for this film festival and awards season called Perfect Days. This film in spoken Japanese, is a simple story of a Japanese man in Tokyo that cleans toilets for a living and despite the incredibly large amount of time we spend watching him doing exactly that, as you’d expect with a Wenders film, the themes of the film are incredibly profound. From our priorities and what makes humans happy to living a simple life and getting older as the world around us changes, if you’re as big of a fan of this t...