by Brandon Lewis January 12, 2021 Number of comments0 Awards Season Chasing Oscar 2021 Movies ‘Promising Young Woman’ Gleefully Eviscerates the Nice Guy Myth Carey Mulligan commands this pitch-black comedic thriller about revenge, retribution, and rape culture.
by Brandon Lewis January 9, 2021 Number of comments0 Awards Season Chasing Oscar 2021 Movies ‘Pieces of a Woman’ Struggles as a Whole Vanessa Kirby and company give powerful performances, but this film about loss gets lost itself.
by Brandon Lewis January 3, 2021 Number of comments0 Awards Season Chasing Oscar 2021 Movies ‘Minari’ Quietly Unearths the Limits of the American Dream Vividly rendered and intimately crafted, this story of Korean immigrants in middle America defies language, location, and generation.
by Brandon Lewis December 19, 2020 Number of comments0 Awards Season Chasing Oscar 2021 Movies Miraculous Performances and Writing Make ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Sing The screen adaptation is almost too faithful to August Wilson’s play, but any tension melts away when a luminous Chadwick Boseman and fiery Viola Davis enter the frame.
by Brandon Lewis December 15, 2020 Number of comments0 Awards Season Chasing Oscar 2021 Movies David Fincher’s ‘Mank’ Has a High Barrier to Entry Stunning but overstuffed, Fincher’s tribute to ‘Citizen Kane’ may require a study guide.
by Brandon Lewis December 12, 2020 Number of comments0 Awards Season Chasing Oscar 2021 Movies Riz Ahmed Anchors the Innovative, Astonishing ‘Sound of Metal’ Director Darius Marder’s depiction of the Deaf community is nuanced, graceful, and dignified.