Tag: Oscars
A Quiet Place Puts on a Clinic in Tension Building While Displaying the Power of a Parent’s Love
************************This review contains spoilers**************************** In the year 2020, the world has been besieged by a horde of blind, indestructible creatures with extremely sensitive senses of sound that hunt and kill anything that makes noise. A Quiet Place follows…
Read More »The Best Performances of 2017
The year has finished and Oscar season is one again upon us. Before the Academy has all the fun, CinemaBabel has compiled its own list of “nominees” and top picks recognizing the best performances in film this year….
Read More »The Best Films of 2017
2017 was a banner year in film. While there is no clear cut, consensus number one film of the year like last year (Moonlight), the depth of this year’s field was tremendous, with almost ten films having legitimate…
Read More »Phantom Thread Stumbles Down the Runway
Phantom Thread takes us into 1950s London as world renowned clothier Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) runs his studio House of Woodcock alongside his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville). Reynolds soon meets young waitress Alma (Vicky Krieps) who becomes his…
Read More »I, Tonya Challenges What You Think You Know In Its Portrayal of the Cycle of Abuse
“I was loved. I can’t describe how that felt.” I, Tonya is a biopic that delves into the life of infamous former figure skater Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie) from her upbringing in Portland, Oregon under the heavy-hand of…
Read More »The Shape of Water Brings the Fairy Tale into Adulthood
“Unable to perceive the shape of you, I find you all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with your love. It humbles my heart, for you are everywhere.” The Shape of Water follows Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins),…
Read More »Darkest Hour Dazzles Visually Amidst Gary Oldman’s Virtuoso Performance
“Those who never change their minds never change anything.” After finally achieving his lifelong dream of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman) is immediately thrust into facing the country’s most turbulent situation in its…
Read More »Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: The Great (but flawed) American Novel
After seven months of silence regarding the investigation into her daughter’s brutal murder, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) rents three billboards alongside a road on the outskirts of the small, southern town of Ebbing, Missouri. The signs chastise police…
Read More »Call Me By Your Name Remembers First Love and Heartbreak
Call Me By Your Name takes us to Northern Italy in 1983 as Elio (Timothée Chalamet) spends the summer with his father (Michael Stuhlbarg) and mother (Amira Casar) as his father’s research assistant Oliver (Armie Hammer) comes to…
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The Post Hopes to Guide Us Toward Our Future Through Examination of Our Past
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. – Matthew 6:24…
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