The Mustang‘s a ruminative, understated, cinematic elegy of horseshoes and handcuffs.
‘Peterloo’
Mike Leigh’s Peterloo is a loquacious counterpart to Caryl Churchill’s superior Light Shining in Buckinghamshire:
‘Gloria Bell’
Gloria Bell‘s a masterclass in embedding symbolically-meaningful gestures under a sheen of precisely-constructed realism.
Stray Takes: ‘Apollo 11’
I grew up going to San Diego’s La Paloma Theatre.
One Small Documentary for Man…
The two biggest documentaries of 2019 offer audiences a chance to experience digitally-restored — and thus never-before-seen — footage depicting two of the 20th century’s biggest historical events, the sort you may assume you’ve already witnessed from every conceivable angle.
Precision in Miniature
What — and whom — do we have the power to hold onto, and how?
Five Emotions Apart
Five Feet Apart inspired/forced me (and my tear ducts) to reappraise my previously-outlined distinction between “tearjerkers” (boo!) and — a word of Write All Nite’s own invention (at least to my knowledge) — “snifflers” (yay!).
Frenemies
It’s never good when closing-credit title-cards suggest a movie more interesting than the one we’ve just watched for over two hours.
A Vigil
Sound design continues to be the technical component that independent films — with their microscopic moolah — seem to have the hardest time pulling off effectively.
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