Tag: Oscars
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…
Read More »Blade Runner 2049 Remains Faithful to the Original While Making Its Own Mark
“We’re all just looking out for something real.” While conducting his duties of hunting and “retiring” the genetically engineered humanoid workforce known as replicants, Blade Runner K (Ryan Gosling) stumbles upon an old secret that his bosses desperately…
Read More »The Big Sick Nails Heartfelt Comedy
In The Big Sick, Kumail (Kumail Nanjiani) is a struggling stand-up comedian of Pakistani descent who meets and falls in love with a white graduate student named Emily (Zoe Kazan). Kumail is stuck trying to reconcile their fast…
Read More »Get Out: A Transcendent Film
Get Out follows Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams) as they travel to upstate New York to meet her parents Missy (Catherine Keener) and Dean (Bradley Whitford). The movie serves as an examination of racism…
Read More »Captain Fantastic: The Kids are Alright
Captain Fantastic follows Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen), a far left survivalist who lives half off the grid, half off with his six children in the woods of Washington state. Ben raises and feeds his kids himself, educating them…
Read More »The Best Performances of 2016
The Oscars are approaching and in the spirit of awards season, below are CinemaBabel’s picks for the best performances of the year. Best Actor Ryan Gosling (La La Land) 2. Denzel Washington (Fences) 3. Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic)…
Read More »The Best Films of 2016
Each year, I try to watch, at minimum 40 films, during the calendar year and rank them in the order from best to worst based on my opinion. I do this because: I love film So that readers…
Read More »Fences: A Glance Toward the Past
For me, Fences is an interesting delve into how the Greatest Generation raised their children and families, particularly black families. Fences follows Troy Maxson (Denzel Washington) a sanitation worker in 1950s Pittsburgh. Troy is a former star baseball…
Read More »Natalie Portman Shines in Jackie
Jackie is a peek through the looking glass of a woman struggling to juggle keeping her composure through the sudden and tragic death of her husband for the sake those around her and dealing with her own grief…
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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…
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