Tag: Romance
Becks Touchingly Delves into the Complicated Side of Love
************************This review contains spoilers**************************** Becks follows a young woman of the same name (Lena Hall) forced to move back to St. Louis with her staunchly Catholic mother Ann (Christine Lahti) after driving from New York to L.A. to…
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 »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 »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 »Her: Love in the Age of Technology
“You know it’s..hard for sure. But there’s something that feels so good about sharing your life with somebody.” Her is a brilliant cinematic treatise on love in the age of technology and how human interaction has been affected…
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Downsizing Comes to a Fork in the Road and Takes the Wrong Path
Wherever you go there you are After a scientific breakthrough where scientists discover how to shrink humans to five inches tall as a solution to overpopulation, Paul (Matt Damon) and his wife Audrey (Kristen Wiig) decide to throw…
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