Showing posts with label Jaoquin Phoenix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jaoquin Phoenix. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Why so serious?


JOKER

I feel like if Todd Phillips were actually the next Martin Scorsese, we'd have known it by now.

2019
Directed by Todd Phillips
Written by Scott Silver and Todd Phillips

Spoiler alert: moderate (maybe technically high, but you know how this one's gonna end, and in pretty fine detail, by, like, the twenty minute mark)

Sunday, April 29, 2018

Elliot Stabler: The Later Years


YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE

The raves go too far, as they usually do; but You Were Never Really Here remains a compelling piece of filmmaking, even as it only occasionally grasps that it is a narrative work, whether it actually wants to be one or not.

2018
Written and directed by Lynne Ramsay (based on the novel by Jonathan Ames)
With Jaoquin Phoenix (Joe), Nina Votto (Ekaterina Samsonov), and Judith Roberts (Joe's mom)

Spoiler alert: moderate