I’ve always loved the English language idiom of referring to the vast expanse of space as “the heavens.”
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Arrival (2016)
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Plenty of times in my movie-watching life, my first reaction to a film has been that it’s like watching two movies tussling for control.
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Sicario (2015)
I’ve seen Denis Villeneuve compared to Christopher Nolan on multiple occasions, and I think there’s some truth to the comparison.
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Enemy (2013)
I really wish that I loved Enemy more than I did.
The last time I watched Gangs of London’s first season all the way through was in the spring of 2020, fully four years ago now, but my memory of the show up to this point has, I think, been pretty sharp.
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Prisoners (2013)
It’s strange: With Prisoners, Denis Villeneuve has a bigger budget, a more talented cast and crew, a script that he did not write himself, a new language to film in, an entirely new genre
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Incendies (2010)
Denis Villeneuve spends Incendies creating a tension between docudrama and melodrama
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Toast (2010)
Toast is a fluffy and bittersweet English dramedy set in the 1960s, following the story of a talented teenage chef as he navigates the loss of his mother and his passion for cooking.
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Madame Web (2024)
Remember last year when half of y’all decided that Moonfall was a lovably dopey and charming throwback blockbuster?
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Polytechnique (2009)
A few nights ago, I drafted (then deleted) a review of Polytechnique that concluded my thoughts with: “Oh yeah, and I am the survivor of a school shooting with a lot of similarities to this one, and I’m not really sure if that changed how I felt about it.”