From Variety’s original review: “’Warrior’ is an improbably effective and affecting mix of raw emotions and exciting smackdowns… Occasionally recalling the bruised and brooding virility of a young Marlon Brando, Hardy is arrestingly intense as Tommy, by turns implosive and explosive as he alternates between guilt and rage, savagery and self-loathing. Nick Nolte was nominated for the Oscar for best supporting actor thanks to his performance as the father of Edgerton and Hardy’s characters. The film casts Joel Edgerton and Tom Hardy as brothers who are pitted against one another in a mixed martial arts tournament, forcing them to confront their shared history and their family bonds. Gavin O’Connor’s “Warrior” is one of the more moving sports dramas of the 2010s. Paul Dano and John Cusack’s expert performances should attract an appreciative reception.” This finely crafted split portrait should win over music nerds skeptical of yet another complicated life being reduced to a series of highlight-reel moments. From Variety’s original review: “A wonderfully innervating cure for the common musical biopic, Bill Pohlad’s ‘Love & Mercy’ vibrantly illuminates two major breakthroughs in the life of the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson…it’s miles removed from the cookie-cutter approach taken by so many other rock bios. Screenwriters Oren Moverman and Michael Alan Lerner bounce between two periods of Wilson’s life, the 1960s (where he’s played by Paul Dano) and the 1980s (John Cusack), to create a dialogue between the artistic side and the personal side of Wilson’s life. With her profoundly articulate diction contrasting sharply with the more amorphous elocution of the younger generation, McDormand is simply smashing.”īill Pohlad shakes up the biographical drama format with “Love & Mercy,” an intimate look at Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson’s struggle with mental illness. From Variety’s original review: “It’s a tribute to first-time screen actor Fugit that he manages to hold center stage effectively in such a circus his innocent but open-minded enthusiasm is in perfect synch with the affable tone Crowe establishes with his script and direction. The cast includes Billy Crudup as the rock band’s frontman Russell Hammond, Kate Hudson as groupie Penny Lane, and Frances McDormand as Fugit’s character’s mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() A semi-autobiographical account of Crowe’s stint as a teenage writer for Rolling Stone magazine, “Almost Famous” stars Patrick Fugit as a young music journalist who tours the country with a rock band in hopes of getting his first story published. ![]() Like a great issue of The New Yorker magazine, his dense zibaldone of character sketches and cross-cultural observations is nearly too much to devour in one sitting, yielding more on repeat visits.”Ĭameron Crowe’s rock and roll movie classic “Almost Famous” returns to streaming this month courtesy of Hulu. Variety film critic Peter Debruge named “The French Dispatch” the second best movie of 2021, writing, “Fortunately, Anderson has shared his impressions of Paris, playfully reimagined in this endlessly inventive portmanteau film - meaning we get several movies for the price of one. The movie tells three short stories and features Anderson’s most star-studded ensemble to date: Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, Jeffrey Wright, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Christoph Waltz, Edward Norton, Jason Schwartzman and Anjelica Huston. Wes Anderson’s delightful anthology movie “The French Dispatch” arrives on HBO Max this month for anyone who didn’t catch it on the festival circuit or in theaters last year.
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